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I've seen this convention before. I personally find it more useful to tag commit messages with [fix], [docs], etc. It makes it more easily searchable, which is

by aylmao 7y ago

I've seen this convention before. I personally find it more useful to tag commit messages with [fix], [docs], etc. It makes it more easily searchable, which is IMO what you really want. You can: git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit | grep "\[doc" to see documentation commits, and count them by piping to `wc`. Emojis feel... complicated. What do they mean? Here you're just typing the literal word so not much to remember or search.

wehrkeoruw 7y ago
You can't search by arbitrary Unicode characters?
- cbsks 7y ago
  It isn't unicode. I cloned the repo, this is the commit message in the command line: :rotating_light: Lint Here's the same commit in GitHub: https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman/commit/4c9c9a22406141f0b63f4f13b6b7e589dd8f74bb https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman/commit/4c9c9a224061... Why not just use "[rotating_light] Lint" as the commit message? Or even better: "[lint] Make changes recommended by foo lint\n\nThis is the foo command used: ..."
dkarl 7y ago
Using emojis feels a bit cliquey, in-groupy. It's an extra barrier to a new developer wanting to get familiar with the project or contribute a quick fix. And you know people are going to get emojis mixed up because different associatons come to mind for different people, so project committers are going to have to be diligent about noticing and correcting mistakes. For me, the effect is the opposite of the casual and inviting atmosphere I think they're intended to create.
dgzl 7y ago
>Emojis feel... complicated. What do they mean? My first smartphone was a Galaxy S2, and I frequently used an emoji that looked like a character giving a sly winking-type gesture. It took me several years to realize that this was actually the eye-rolling emoji, and every other system's implantation clearly showed this. Some of the more strange responses I received started to make sense.

by aylmao 7y ago

wehrkeoruw 7y ago

You can't search by arbitrary Unicode characters?

cbsks 7y ago
It isn't unicode. I cloned the repo, this is the commit message in the command line: :rotating_light: Lint Here's the same commit in GitHub: https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman/commit/4c9c9a22406141f0b63f4f13b6b7e589dd8f74bb https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman/commit/4c9c9a224061... Why not just use "[rotating_light] Lint" as the commit message? Or even better: "[lint] Make changes recommended by foo lint\n\nThis is the foo command used: ..."

dkarl 7y ago

Using emojis feels a bit cliquey, in-groupy. It's an extra barrier to a new developer wanting to get familiar with the project or contribute a quick fix. And you know people are going to get emojis mixed up because different associatons come to mind for different people, so project committers are going to have to be diligent about noticing and correcting mistakes. For me, the effect is the opposite of the casual and inviting atmosphere I think they're intended to create.

dgzl 7y ago

>Emojis feel... complicated. What do they mean? My first smartphone was a Galaxy S2, and I frequently used an emoji that looked like a character giving a sly winking-type gesture. It took me several years to realize that this was actually the eye-rolling emoji, and every other system's implantation clearly showed this. Some of the more strange responses I received started to make sense.