Hi,
I recently came to git for a project I participate to. I found git gui rather handy (under OSX Snow Leopard) to srtat with but I would much like if it were not localized (in French, in my case). Is there preference or hack to have git gui displayed in english ?
Thanks in advance, Julien
export LANG=en_US
should do. It will affect everything you run from this shell, though.
You could remove/rename the translation file from the install, french would be
... /share/git-gui/lib/msgs/fr.msg
Don't know about OS-X, but under windows that would normally be C:\Program Files\Git\share\git-gui\lib\msgs\, and on Linux (and others) /usr/share/git-gui/lib/msgs/ .
(and gitk ... /share/gitk/lib/msgs/ )
Thanks both of you for quick answers. I (at least temporary) removed the fr.msg and it is less confusing in english imho.
For Windows users the are two choices as well:
1) Set the LANG environment variable to en.
Important to know: If you don't want to affect anything else except git applications you might add the following line in the beginning of C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.cmd file:
@set LANG=en
2) Delete or rename relevant *.msg file in C:\Program Files\Git\share\git-gui\lib\msgs
You save on not modifying any setup shell (especially if you use cmd.exe shells) but you lose on international functionality.
Credits: These answers originated in the official issue raised in msysgit project which can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=302