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Re: Is there some env variable like GIT_LANG (like LANG)?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 21, 2011, 19:43 UTC
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Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> writes:
> What would you think of it?

Strongly negative. I don't want force people to set GIT_LANG HG_LANG CVS_LANG and 47 different FROTZ_LANG environment variables.

I would rather just set LANG=C LC_ALL=C in the terminal I use git in and leave everything else in whatever locale the rest of the system is in.

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