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Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions)

Subject: Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions)

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4 messages between Apr 17, 2009 and Apr 17, 2009.

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Kai Schlamp· Apr 17, 2009, 14:32 UTC · lore

Hello.

I know this had been discussed before (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/61884/match=git+gui+language),

but in my opinion there is no acceptable solution yet. When I set LANG=en it also changes my keyboard layout and thats quite confusing. But the German terms used in git gui are even more confusing (I was even shocked when starting it the first time). People using git generally know what e.g. "commit" is. But the german translation ("Eintragen") seems to me a bad joke. I had to look at some screenshots of the english gui to find out what it is all about. I would suggest to keep the git idenfiers (like commit, push, pull, ....) in foreign languages. And please have an option to choose the language of the complete gui. Most developers I know of like to use tools in english, even if that is not their native language. Another thing I miss a bit is an option to select old commit messages (like the TortoiseHg client of the Mercurial project has). And a last one. It would be nice to have a menu item to add all untracked files at once. I had to add my own "Tool" for that. But apart from that (to not only nag ;-)), git gui is quite comfortable.

Fine regards, Kai

Kai Schlamp· Apr 17, 2009, 14:44 UTC · re: Kai Schlamp · lore

Re: Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions)

Oh I forgot to say. I am using Git under Cygwin (not quite sure if LANG=en also under Linux changes the keyboard layout too).

Kai Schlamp schrieb:

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> Hello.
> 
> I know this had been discussed before
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/61884/match=git+gui+language), 
> 
> 
> but in my opinion there is no acceptable solution yet.
> When I set LANG=en it also changes my keyboard layout and thats quite
> confusing. But the German terms used in git gui are even more confusing
> (I was even shocked when starting it the first time). People using git
> generally know what e.g. "commit" is. But the german translation
> ("Eintragen") seems to me a bad joke. I had to look at some screenshots
> of the english gui to find out what it is all about.
> I would suggest to keep the git idenfiers (like commit, push, pull,
> ....) in foreign languages.
> And please have an option to choose the language of the complete gui.
> Most developers I know of like to use tools in english, even if that is
> not their native language.
> Another thing I miss a bit is an option to select old commit messages
> (like the TortoiseHg client of the Mercurial project has).
> And a last one. It would be nice to have a menu item to add all
> untracked files at once. I had to add my own "Tool" for that.
> But apart from that (to not only nag ;-)), git gui is quite comfortable.
> 
> Fine regards,
> Kai
> 
>

Mikael Magnusson· Apr 17, 2009, 14:47 UTC · re: Kai Schlamp · lore

Re: Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions)

2009/4/17 Kai Schlamp <schlamp@gmx.de>:

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> Hello.
>
> I know this had been discussed before
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/61884/match=git+gui+language),
>
> but in my opinion there is no acceptable solution yet.
> When I set LANG=en it also changes my keyboard layout and thats quite
> confusing.

I don't know much about language selection on windows (which you didn't say you're using, but I'm inferring it from the referenced thread), but you could try setting LC_MESSAGES=en and LANG=de_DE or whatever germany is, that should at least work in linux :). Maybe tk is nice enough to follow the same rules?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson

Kai Schlamp· Apr 17, 2009, 15:11 UTC · re: Mikael Magnusson · lore

Re: Change git gui language (+ some other suggestions)

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> I don't know much about language selection on windows (which you
> didn't say you're using, but I'm inferring it from the referenced
> thread), but you could try setting LC_MESSAGES=en and LANG=de_DE or
> whatever germany is, that should at least work in linux :). Maybe tk
> is nice enough to follow the same rules?
>

Thanks Mikael. But it seems that it was more a problem with the Cygwin console. LANG=en works now too without changing the keyboard layout. But your recommendation works also :-)

Cheers, Kai