Change git's language to English without changing the locale

Question

My locale is German. LANG=de_DE.UTF-8. I would like to keep it.

Is it possible to change git's language to English without changing the locale?

score 33 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 24 '13 at 22:56

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You can add alias to you .bashrc or .bash_profile

alias git='LANG=en_US.UTF-8 git'

If LANG doesn't work, try LC_ALL or LANGUAGE

edited Jul 24 '13 at 22:56

sergej

answered Jul 16 '13 at 13:33

pondohva

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 14 '14 at 07:55

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This worked for me:

echo "export LANGUAGE='en_US.UTF-8 git'" >> ~/.bashrc

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, git version 1.9.1

answered Aug 14 '14 at 07:55

DmitryDzz

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