Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git option

On 12/04/2014 08:32 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote:

Hi!

I'm native German, but German git messages confuse me (yopu'll have to correlate them with the man pages). At the moment git uses the locale settings from the environment, so you can only change git's locale settings by changing the environment (like "LANG= git ...").
OTOH Git has a flexible hierachical option setting mechanism. Why not allow a Git language (locale) setting system-wde, user-wide, or repository-specific.

Regards,
Ulrich

How about
alias git='LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 git'
in your ~/.profile ?
(Of course you need to change de to the language you want )