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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
Cc: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git option
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 04:55:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141204095557.GE27455@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54801B50.4080500@web.de>

On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:29:04AM +0100, Torsten Bögershausen wrote:

> 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 )

Besides being awkward in scripts (which will not respect the alias and
use a different language!), that variable will also be inherited by
programs git spawns. So the editor, for example, may end up in the wrong
language.

I think respecting core.locale would make sense (probably the change
would go into git_setup_gettext(), but you may have to fight with the
setup code over looking at config so early in the process).

However, I think the original question is not one of localizing git, but
rather of having it _not_ localized (avoiding the German translations).
There is a hack you can do that for that, which is to set
GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR to something nonsensical (like "/"), which will mean
git cannot find the .po files, and just uses the builtin messages.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-04  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-04  7:32 Enhancement Request: "locale" git option Ulrich Windl
2014-12-04  8:29 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-12-04  9:55   ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-12-04 15:49     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2014-12-04 16:12       ` Michael J Gruber
2014-12-04 16:53         ` Andreas Schwab
2014-12-04 17:21         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2014-12-04 20:55           ` Jeff King
2014-12-05 15:45             ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-12-06 19:28               ` Ralf Thielow
2014-12-08  7:50                 ` Antw: " Ulrich Windl
2014-12-08  9:48                   ` David Kastrup
2014-12-04 15:51   ` Ulrich Windl
2014-12-04 19:02 ` Ralf Thielow
2014-12-08  7:20   ` Antw: " Ulrich Windl

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