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From: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>
To: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git option
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:29:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54801B50.4080500@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54801C39020000A1000182FA@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de>

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 )

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-04  8:30 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 [this message]
2014-12-04  9:55   ` Jeff King
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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