40yo senior software engineer here. Just embrace the emojis! It's fun and adds some life to the drudgery. There's literally no downside.
9 months ago | 2,200
Well 😅 🎉init: My first commit 🐞fix(component): This is a bug commit ✨feat(component): This is a feature commit 🦄 refactor(component): Converted to OOP 📄docs(jsdoc): All my JSDoc 🎈perf(component): This is a performance improvement commit 🧪test(vitest): A Unit test commit 🔧build(dep): Add gipz lib 🐎ci(docker): Add libsql 🐳chore(util): Add tool to debug in prod ↩️revert: Rollb
9 months ago | 951
Weirdest thing I ever put in a commit message was after I spent like three days fixing a hosed repo was a massive ASCII image of a doge with the text, "Very Merge, Much fix, Wow". This was at a fortune 500 company.
9 months ago | 96
Everyone knows classic UwU is the only acceptable format for commits.
9 months ago | 804
have the opposite happening at work, the older tech lead started using emojis in the commits lol
9 months ago | 205
As a professional developer, I'd prefer to add "did stuff" an leave it at that
9 months ago | 113
Only real reason to be anti emoji is if they don't render correctly in your programs And really that just means your programs are bad
9 months ago | 506
I was an early adopter of emojis in commit messages, until I spent a week debugging why an automated deployment was failing to initiate, only to find out it would only fail when the triggering commit contained an emoji For a while I avoided using emojis if there where automations that could be affected, but I've come around and now I simply test commit-triggered automations with emojis, and the couple of times I've reported emoji related errors upstream it has brought a smile to my face 😄
9 months ago | 84
Say that Unicode emojis are causing bugs in development and that they're gonna have to stop until Git Fixes the bug. Eventually, their horrible little habit is gonna stop.
9 months ago | 2
As a GenZeer the only people who I've seen using emojis in work communication are old millennials
9 months ago | 81
It's more of an accessibility issue for devs who are using screen readers. I would probably only allow one emoji per commit message. Hammer and pick fixed bug ladybug in login function smiling face with sunglasses
9 months ago | 9
Just make sure you stifle all creativity so they stay for life
9 months ago | 177
There are almost no downsides (if you make an occasional commit on a Linux console with no GUI that can be a PITA, but there are ways to script around that). And it makes programming more fun. In particular, using emojis as a first character to encode commit type is a brilliant idea ✨️
9 months ago | 0
I don't mind a single emoji in the beginning to classify the type of commit, but anything else is unnecessary. The single emoji is kinda fun though
9 months ago | 1
Writing that commit messages in English with everyone knows they're supposed to be in Latin. Kids these days.
9 months ago (edited) | 90
I wrote my first program in 1970, I've worked with some great Devs, I've written and managed many major projects. And I'd not have a problem with this. You're asking the wrong question. I'd not ask how to stop them, but why stop them, unless they reach the point where it impacts readability.
9 months ago | 27
Theo - t3․gg
Emojis have no place in commit messages. Put them where they belong: variable names
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