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Re: setting git-gui locale

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 11, 2008, 10:01 UTC
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Hi,
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Maxim Fridental wrote:
> Could someone point me please to a doc describing how to override 
> language setting for git-gui tool (precompiled for Windows, downloaded 
> from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list)?
Try setting LANG=C or LANG=en before calling git-gui.
> It is choosing German language for its menu items on any system I 
> install it; and I personally find the German translations unusable.

Patches welcome, Dscho

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