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Christophe Colombier

Posted on May 4, 2024

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 cli 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