On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:52:08AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> writes: > > >> But it should not be per-command, but per-message, and > >> should include all output that is not diagnostic and is not > >> machine-parseable (e.g., what I mentioned above, request-pull > >> output, etc). If it is the project's language, then the team > >> members will need to know it anyway, so it should not be too big a > >> burden to have a potentially different language there than in the > >> diagnostic messages. > > > > No matter what the project languages is, machine parseable part will > > not be localized but fixed to "C" anyway, so I do not think it comes > > into the picture. > > > > My take on this is, if there is the project language, it should > > apply to _everything_. Please do not introduce any per-command, > > per-message, per-anything mess. Just set LANG/LC_ALL up and be done > > with it. > > > > And I think you justified why that is the right thing to do very > > well in the second sentence in the above paragraph I quoted from > > you. > > You seem to be saying that diagnostic does not have to be in project > language, but I do not think it is the right thing to do. The first > response to "Frotz does not work" is often "What do you exactly > mean? How did you run Frotz? What error message are you getting > from it?", and you do not want to get back the diagnostics in > Klingon.
By that line of reasoning, wouldn't all git developers be required to set LANG=C? Fine by me as an English speaker, but I get the impression that other developers are using the localization. I don't think there is anything wrong with primarily working in your native language, but making the effort to switch for communicating with teammates (either when writing them emails, or using LANG=C when showing them output from your terminal). If the "switch to LANG=C" thing is a relatively rare thing, I don't see a problem. The issue with the diffstat is that it is too easy to accidentally send out a localized one. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
