I had a short discussion about them just yesterday. It’s not a yay for me but also not a nay. I use icons for change lists in pull requests and release notes. B

I had a short discussion about them just yesterday. It’s not a yay for me but also not a nay. I use icons for change lists in pull requests and release notes. But I use my own set of svg icons to have better control over the icons themselves. I don’t like these icons in commit message subject lines because they're too ambiguous. If you adopt the imperative subject line style (Add class X, Fix issue XYZ, etc.) you have all the same benefits plus a clearer meaning. Also using a emoji plus a description like ‘:bug: fixes issue’ makes the whole benefit of short one character icons go away.