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Christophe Colombier

Posted on May 4

Git commit helper: add emojis to your commits

#git #tutorial #beginners #tooling

Following the article wrote by @muzammil-cyber

Git Commit Message Decoder: New Coder Edition

Muhammad Muzammil Loya ・ May 3

#git #programming #productivity

I would recommend anyone looking for having emojis in their commits to use the following tool made by @carloscuesta

carloscuesta / gitmoji-cli

A gitmoji interactive command line tool for using emojis on commits. 💻

gitmoji-cli

A gitmoji interactive client for using gitmojis on commit messages.

About

This project provides an easy solution for using gitmoji from your command line. Gitmoji-cli solves the hassle of searching through the gitmoji list. Includes a bunch of options you can play with! 🎉

Install

npm

npm i -g gitmoji-cli

brew

brew install gitmoji

Usage

gitmoji --help

A gitmoji interactive client for using gitmojis on commit messages.

  Usage
    $ gitmoji
  Options
    --init, -i      Initialize gitmoji as a commit hook
    --remove, -r    Remove a previously initialized commit hook
    --config, -g    Setup gitmoji-cli preferences.
    --commit, -c    Interactively commit using the prompts
    --list, -l      List all the available gitmojis
    --search, -s    Search gitmojis
    --version, -v   Print gitmoji-cli installed version
    --update, -u    Sync emoji list with the repo

Commit

You can use the commit functionality in two ways, directly or via a commit-hook.

If you want to integrate gitmoji-cli in your project I…

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You can select the right emoji for your commits.

You can also use @folke devmoji

folke / devmoji

🤖 🚀 ✨ Emojify your conventional commits with Devmoji

✨ Devmoji

Using Conventional Commits ⭐ as a standard for your commit messages, makes Semantic Versioning 🔖 as easy as can be, with tools like Conventional Changelog 📄 Standard Version 🔖 and Semantic Release 📦🚀

Devmoji is a command line tool that adds color 🌈 to conventional commits, using emojis inspired by Gitmoji 😜

Some of the things Devmoji can do:

emojify: convert input between diferent emoji formats unicode, shortcode and devmoji. devmoji are easy to remember aliases like: :test:, :refactor:, :docs:, :security instead of hard to remember emoji codes
git commit: install a prepare-commit-msg commit hook to ✨ automagically emojify and lints your commit message
git log: emojify and colorify the output of git log even for projects not using emojis

What does it look like?

see the commit messages of the Devmoji github repository
generated Devmoji CHANGELOG.md

📦 Installation

Install with npm…

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This one transform your commit message into emoji.

Both can allow you to enforce conventional commits

Top comments (1)

Muhammad Muzammil Loya • May 4

These repos look cool! I'll check them out.