July 22nd, 2024

An emoji guide for your commit messages

The website introduces "gitmoji," a guide for using emojis in GitHub commit messages. Emojis symbolize actions like bug fixes (🐛) and feature deployment (🚀), enhancing code communication for collaborators. Created by Carlos Cuesta, gitmoji aims for expressive commit messages.

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An emoji guide for your commit messages

The website provides a guide for using emojis in commit messages on GitHub, called "gitmoji." Each emoji represents a specific action related to code changes, such as improving code structure, fixing bugs, adding new features, deploying code, and more. For example, using 🐛 indicates fixing a bug, while 🚀 signifies deploying new features. The guide includes a wide range of emojis to cover various scenarios like improving performance, updating documentation, fixing security issues, and even writing bad code that needs improvement. This emoji-based system aims to make commit messages more expressive and easier to understand for collaborators. Developed by Carlos Cuesta, the gitmoji guide offers a playful and visual way to communicate the nature of code changes within a project.

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By @politelemon - 7 months
My suggestion is, please don't. Focus on communicating with the reader of the information. The emojis contribute visual clutter and the meanings are not obvious.
By @cafard - 7 months
Just to make the next developer hate me even more...
By @punyearthling - 7 months
By @exsomet - 7 months
Why use words to say exactly what something does when you can use pictures to confuse and over-complicate?
By @elpocko - 7 months
If there's one thing I hate more than the "chore:", "feat:", etc. nonsense in commit messages...
By @HeWhoLurksLate - 7 months
ah yes, hieroglyphics in my commit messages