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

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 1

If you just want to have one command in english instead you can just write LC_ALL=C before the command, for example:

LC_ALL=C git status

will result in

# On branch master
nothing to commit, working directory clean

The locale as used in C is English and always available without installing additional language packs
(see https://askubuntu.com/a/142814/34298)

To change it for the whole current bash session just enter

LANG=C

To change it for example to german enter

LANG=de_DE.UTF-8