From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?windows-1252?Q?Torsten_B=F6gershausen?= Subject: Re: Enhancement Request: "locale" git option Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:29:04 +0100 Message-ID: <54801B50.4080500@web.de> References: <54801C39020000A1000182FA@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ulrich Windl , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 04 09:30:32 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XwRny-00064A-Ku for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:30:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753300AbaLDIaZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 03:30:25 -0500 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:56703 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751878AbaLDIaY (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2014 03:30:24 -0500 Received: from [192.168.88.199] ([194.47.243.242]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb004) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lfmd0-1XdLGx0QcU-00pKwO; Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:30:21 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: <54801C39020000A1000182FA@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:6MlR4jy6D5x/sdohRsHboEPSsy1fi+rMGtOaQ0jQjZDDmdGa6tt 1ovis7AUJiWnLyGacTgiiU8VUhNQ/n3a2s69akLqw/N4TNlp8IMGI+Y37hWFfKYNnUr3+2V ptbdtxL7CGyRakjAwMUhRkG8d7jH4QDX6Vde3YubJMX4HXbOsS0gX9BmHxWSZNXejfBUmzQ qsB5TJEVoNM4Sf30csy1g== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 )