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Something Someone Somewhere Uses... Sometimes

benjaminadk on December 21, 2018

🌌 Recently I found myself coding in a team and it was decided that all commit messages would begin with an emoji. Gitmoji defines what each emoji m...
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Heber Quequejana

Thank you very much. I'm already using it. I would like you to change the (') to (") in the message template, due to some errors that appear when I write commit messages like :construction: test(something): do something

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benjaminadk

done.

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Jason C. McDonald

Too bad y'all didn't go retro and just use emoticons. :-)

Thanks for sharing your problem solving process!

As to actually using emojiis in the commit message, I'm a bit torn. On the one hand, it's a brilliant way of visually organizing commits. On the other hand, it sounds like it turned into a bout of yak-shaving. I'll be interested to know what the return-on-(time)-investment is on this.

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Ashley Sheridan

A warning to anyone using emoji in commit messages with a CI system that uses older components: unless every part of your CI process supports the encoding then things won't work as you expect. I've found this out the hard way more than once!

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Davyd McColl

I like gitmoji on the web, but having them as prefixes makes trawling test logs tedious. I'm a firm believer in semantic commit logs, but perhaps I'll chuck some of these in further down the message (:

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alevinetx

s/right/write