Ubuntu – Change git’s language to English without changing the locale

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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?

Best Answer

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

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You have in /etc/default/locale (or more likely in your output from the locale command):

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LANGUAGE=en_US:en

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