How can I switch the language from french to english?
Asked by David Jeanmonod:

How can I switch the language from french to english?


Answers:
author: stevestreeting
body: WHat language is used is controlled by the system language priority (System Preferences \> Language and Text \> Re-order list). You can't set it independently of the system preference right now unless you use an alternate launcher like Language Switcher: <http://www.tj-hd.co.uk/en-gb/languageswitcher/>

comments: author: David Jeanmonod
body: That's a bit desapointed, but at least the LanguageSwitcher soft is easy to use... Thanks at lot for fast reply!


author: thpfaff
body: I'd strongly recommend enabling such an option soon.

I found that many of the translations for VCS commands like commit, push, pull etc. only serve to confuse people. Therefore I like to have my VCS software interface in English, even though I don't want to have all my system in English.

As this shouldn't be that difficult to implement I would also rather not install some additional software to work around this deficiency.

So far I found SourceTree to be one of the best graphical git clients for windows. Keep up the good work - and make the interface language variable, please :-)


author: ralf_hauber
body: I agree with thpfaff.


author: Andrea Polci
body: I also agree with thpfaff. Translations other than english are really awful, the tool is nearly unusable.


author: Garravich
body: This is quite ridiculous. Expecially for as good a project as this. I'm going back to 1.3 because I can't find any workaround working for windows, and the italian translation is so awful I can't even find merge function... and this after messing around language settings for a while, that will surely give some frustrating problems later


author: China Puriifer
body: I am 100% aggree with you i have bit idea about this issue that i have get a detail guidelines about it from the [loan against gold](https://www.manappuram.com/gold-loan.html)


author: ralf_hauber
body: Check out for Windows or Mac, resp.:

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/264635/change-language-to-english>

[](/questions/258351/language-preferences)<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/258351/language-preferences>

comments: author: James Maheux
body: This was so easy! Thanks a lot!


author: L M?ller
body: Thank you! I was getting crazy with the "Zweig" (=Branch) and "Zusammenf?hren" (=Merge). I mean who needs git in a different language than english? All these action names are made-up terms so a translation is like translating "Sourcetree" to "Quellbaum"


author: hoabu
body: Who's the hell this idea. It's drive me crazy, the newest version still not have language option. It's all depend on windows language.


author: ATTOLOU
body: Tools\>Options and you find Language field in general tab.

Best regards


author: mytutorials
body: This is the most stupid feature I've seen : why on earth do you depend on system language preference ? You can be french on windows but just have commit in english.

Worst of all even when setting windows to english as default doesn't make sourcetree switch to english ![sad](/html/@C495B4504065515364EB1894F812B34C/images/emoticons/sad.png "sad")


author: Jared Antonenkov
body: ![Screen Shot 2019-12-16 at 10.40.44 AM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/76432i3687F7AC9D6440D1/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2019-12-16 at 10.40.44 AM.png")


author: optimax_energy
body: same as with office, every patch they move around some settings.

as with Aug. 2019, this option can now be found via Tools -\> Options -\> General -\> **Repo Settings** -\> Language

and not in the Misc part


author: Abdel
body: ++**Guys, the question was asked in 2011.**++

***It is 2018!!!***

Is there a clear answer to how switch interface language (back to English)?  

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In other languages all sprint jargon is confusing!

Cannot relate what I am doing to SCRUM metodology $#%\&$@(%

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Actually, after backing up the database (local) through XML, is it possible to reinstall the product? And in case the data is overritten, resore the XML?

comments: author: Abdel
body: Doesn't work!

The imported data include the system language, so I restored the previous language (french) on top of english (during installation)


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