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95% of the commits on my personal open source projects use emoji commit messages. https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/commit-emoji https://github.com/transit

95% of the commits on my personal open source projects use emoji commit messages. https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/commit-emoji https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/commit-emoji PRs matter a lot more than commit messages, especially if you're squashing + merging / rebasing.

sph 4y ago
But why? That's even more useless than just describing a commit in a couple words. I'd rather see a commit saying "fix bug" when bisecting or reading a commit history than ":heart:"
slaymaker1907 4y ago
I've tried with the idea of an autocommit chron job or something which just uses timestamps and periodically rebases things to avoid tons of commits.
mwt 4y ago
Honest question, do you really expect your history to be meaningful long-term? Or are you simply taking the approach that the commit message is meaningless and a developer instead use GitHub search to find a PR relevant to a change they're investigating. For example, I pulled up one of your projects and the history (https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/kwote/commits/main https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/kwote/commits/main) is less than meaningless, compared to i.e. using emojis as a shorthand (https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/commits/master https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/commits/master)
- Bolkan 4y ago
  What if I want to revert to a previous state / compare current state with a previous state. "starting work on bizon gradiants" is way better than . Edit: apparantly HN blocks emojis. Love this feature.
- wdroz 4y ago
  Fastapi use gitmoji [0], this is well-documented and structured. [0] -- https://gitmoji.dev/ https://gitmoji.dev/
  - tremon 4y ago
    That's... horrible. You mean the entire developer's thought process behind a change will be represented by a single 12x16 picture? Even hieroglyphs were more expressive than that.
    - mwt 4y ago
      > You mean the entire developer's thought process behind a change will be represented by a single 12x16 picture? No, look at the log of FastAPI (or even gitmoji itself: https://github.com/carloscuesta/gitmoji https://github.com/carloscuesta/gitmoji) and you'll see that i.e. the bug emoji serves *only* to replace "bugfix: " at the beginning of the commit message, not the entirety.

sph 4y ago

But why? That's even more useless than just describing a commit in a couple words. I'd rather see a commit saying "fix bug" when bisecting or reading a commit history than ":heart:"

slaymaker1907 4y ago

I've tried with the idea of an autocommit chron job or something which just uses timestamps and periodically rebases things to avoid tons of commits.

mwt 4y ago

Honest question, do you really expect your history to be meaningful long-term? Or are you simply taking the approach that the commit message is meaningless and a developer instead use GitHub search to find a PR relevant to a change they're investigating. For example, I pulled up one of your projects and the history (https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/kwote/commits/main https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/kwote/commits/main) is less than meaningless, compared to i.e. using emojis as a shorthand (https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/commits/master https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/commits/master)

Bolkan 4y ago
What if I want to revert to a previous state / compare current state with a previous state. "starting work on bizon gradiants" is way better than . Edit: apparantly HN blocks emojis. Love this feature.
wdroz 4y ago
Fastapi use gitmoji [0], this is well-documented and structured. [0] -- https://gitmoji.dev/ https://gitmoji.dev/
- tremon 4y ago
  That's... horrible. You mean the entire developer's thought process behind a change will be represented by a single 12x16 picture? Even hieroglyphs were more expressive than that.
  - mwt 4y ago
    > You mean the entire developer's thought process behind a change will be represented by a single 12x16 picture? No, look at the log of FastAPI (or even gitmoji itself: https://github.com/carloscuesta/gitmoji https://github.com/carloscuesta/gitmoji) and you'll see that i.e. the bug emoji serves *only* to replace "bugfix: " at the beginning of the commit message, not the entirety.