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Setup

64-bit

$ git --version --build-options

git version 2.47.1.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 2cd2243
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: D:/git-sdk-64-build-installers/usr/bin/sh
feature: fsmonitor--daemon
libcurl: 8.11.0
OpenSSL: OpenSSL 3.2.3 3 Sep 2024
zlib: 1.3.1

Windows 10 64-bit
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.2965]

One of the following:

type "C:\Program Files\Git\etc\install-options.txt"
Editor Option: VIM
Custom Editor Path:
Default Branch Option:
Path Option: Cmd
SSH Option: OpenSSH
Tortoise Option: false
CURL Option: OpenSSL
CRLF Option: CRLFAlways
Bash Terminal Option: MinTTY
Git Pull Behavior Option: Merge
Use Credential Manager: Enabled
Performance Tweaks FSCache: Enabled
Enable Symlinks: Disabled
Enable FSMonitor: Disabled

Details

PowerShell

git status

Problem:
After installation No localization.
Translation file folder C:\Program Files\Git\usr\share\locale
does not exist after installation.
Changing environment variables does not help. How to install Git translation files?

[dscho]

This is intentional: The translations would increase the size of the installer too much.

Having said that, what you really are looking for may be MSYS2. Git for Windows leverages MSYS2 and ships with a subset of its files. You can even install Git for Windows' SDK (even if it caters to contributors more than users) which comes with a package management system called "pacman" to install more tools (including Git...), so why don't you give it a whirl?