How does one change the language of the command line interface of Git?

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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.

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