I was thinking the exact opposite actually. I like how easy you can get a feel for the latest commits just by seeing the emoji, which is excellent! More people should enforce rules like this.

Simon's a top notch interactive graphical user interface designer and programmer. Not just static pictures, not just fixed animations, not just functional code, but rich interactive animated feedback that's actually useful and helps you complete your task while it's also beautiful. When you can design and program stuff like this all on your own and give it away for free, then you can make up any rules you want about commit messages. Look what else he can do with icons and emojis:

https://schneegans.github.io/news/2021/12/02/flypie10

>More Fly-Pie Updates!

>In the last couple of months several new versions of Fly-Pie have been released. In this post, I want to highlight the major new feature.

>New features were added in version 8 and version 10. The versions 9 and 11 were released as well, but they contain bug fixes only. Here are two trailers to celebrate the respective releases:

Fly-Pie 8: New default dark theme and support for GNOME 3.36, 3.38, 40, and 41!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9t7hfkE_5w

Fly-Pie 10: A new Clipboard Menu, proper touch support & much more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGXtckqhEIk

Gitmoji - Yay or Nay? 2019, 220 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21760021

If you'd like more thoughts on the matter.

(and the original article now lives here: https://www.bekk.christmas/post/2019/11/gitmoji-yay-or-nay )

I may start doing that for my own projects.

Interestingly, this diverges from the more common gitmoji rules: https://gitmoji.dev/

>I don't think many people will contribute with a rule like that

Why do you think that is?

It increases barrier of entry with something that is really arbitrary and not easy to remember unless you have a cheat-sheet in front of you.

I have lots of commit rules in all my projects but they're simple, straightforward, and easy to remember because they're useful and commonplace. eg "Short one-line commit message, more details in the paragraph beneath it, atomic commits with single change per commit, no individual commit breaks the tests".

If you can't remember that the "silly" project has a "silly rule" in place, and you won't remember any time you look at "git log" results, then I really don't know what to tell you.

That's simple enough: have a text file with the emoji saved somewhere handy, or use a text macro expander to replace :colon_style_markup: with real emoji. If you don't already have an emoji input widget on hand, that is.

Because emoji are tacky. You want to use them in your commit message? Fine. But if I were ever contribute to a project that enforces such a rule I would start every commit with the middle finger emoji.

> But if I were ever contribute to a project that enforces such a rule I would start every commit with the middle finger emoji.

Ah yes, the Kid Rock aesthetic. Much less tacky.

It's his project. He can be tacky, if he wants to. If you don't like it, fork it.

I don't like emojis, but I have even less regard for how boring the internet has become.

I don't think it's out of place on a project about cool window effects which many would also consider tacky.

Isn't tackiness heavily context, culture, and timeframe dependent? Besides, computing is far too serious these days . I see no reason for my computing to be a little bit whimsical (especially if it's a hobby project), provided it's also self-consistent.

> Isn't tackiness heavily context, culture, and timeframe dependent?

All the more reason to not require them?

I believe the opposite: that there is sometimes the right place, the right project/people, and the right time to be whimsical. So not always, but also not never (as an abolitionist stance would see it).

Well I do have to admit that in this particular instance it is just as silly as the project itself, so it does fit.

I don't even know how to type an emoji on my computer

They're not actually emoji; they're shortcodes that get rendered out to emoji in the Github interface. (Which, IMO, is worse than actually using emoji, but easier to type, I suppose.)

    935e922 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD) :tada: Bump version number
    aeec220 (tag: v7) Merge branch 'feature/3d-noise'
    17fae26 :lipstick: Tweak labels
    a331736 :twisted_rightwards_arrows: Merge pull request #21 from Schneegans/feature/3d-noise

On Windows just press Win+; .

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