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Darkø Tasevski

That sounds awesome! But I'm not sure that emojis are searchable by grep or similar command-line tools, and that's one of the most important point in my case.

I find it nice when you are browsing commit history to quickly identify commits.

This is very true, I think that it's easier to identify a commit just by looking at emoji instead of looking down the wall of commits and trying to find that one refactor that messed up everything :D

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🦁 Yvonnick FRIN • Edited

What is nice with gitmoji is that it uses emojis' names so you can grep "sparkles" to get all commits introducing new features for example (commit message: "✨ Add an awesome feature"). The software interprets the string as an emoji. Am I clear?

Edit: Dev.to transforms the string in emoji too 😂

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Darkø Tasevski

Cool, didn't know that :)