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Re: [PATCH] Revert diffstat back to English

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 13, 2012, 21:10 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I suspect we will end up with people not setting i18n.projectlang, and
> getting Klingon diffstats on the list.

Yes, but when our starting point is that the diffstat summary is not meant for machine consumption, which I tend to agree, that is a logical consequence no matter how you cut it, no? After all, they want to be careless when running format-patch meant for _this_ project whose project language is C locale, but still want to be able to see output that is not meant for machine consumption in their native language, and these are incompatible goals.

Giving them a mechanism so that they do not have to remember setting LANG/LC_ALL every time they context switch into this project would be the best we can do, I am afraid.

Unless somebody has a better design that does not involve three languages (always C, project language and Klingon), that is.

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Message 12 of 28 in “Mixing English and a local language”
  1. 0/2 Mixing English and a local languageNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 25, 2012
  2. 1/2 Allow to print diffstat in English regardless current localeNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 25, 2012
  3. 2/2 format-patch: always print diffstat in EnglishNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 25, 2012
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 12, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2012
  6. Jeff KingSep 13, 2012
  7. Revert diffstat back to EnglishNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Sep 13, 2012
  8. Jeff KingSep 13, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2012
  11. Jeff KingSep 13, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2012
  13. Jeff KingSep 13, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2012
  15. Jeff KingSep 13, 2012
  16. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2012
  17. Jeff KingSep 14, 2012
  18. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 14, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoSep 14, 2012
  20. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 15, 2012
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2012
  22. Junio C HamanoSep 13, 2012
  23. Jeff KingSep 13, 2012
  24. Jeff KingSep 13, 2012
  25. Michael J GruberSep 14, 2012
  26. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 14, 2012
  27. Makefile: respect $LINGUAS variable on selecting .mo files to installNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Sep 14, 2012
  28. Michael J GruberSep 14, 2012

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