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How to set English as the default language of git commit comments
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Add these lines to your ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zprofile to force git to display all messages in English:
# 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.
# 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