Question:
I’d like to change the language of git (to English) in my Linux installation without changing the language for other programs and couldn’t find the settings.
How to do it?
Answer:
Add these lines to your ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zprofile to force git to display all messages in English:
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# Set Git language to English #alias git='LANG=en_US git' alias git='LANG=en_GB git' |
The alias needs to override LC_ALL on some systems, when the environment variable LC_ALL is set, which has precedence over LANG. See the UNIX Specification – Environment Variables for further explanation.
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# Set Git language to English #alias git='LC_ALL=en_US git' alias git='LC_ALL=en_GB git' |
In case you added these lines to ~/.bashrc the alias will be defined when a new interactive shell gets started. In case you added it to ~/.bash_profile the alias will be applied when logging in.