Gitmoji is an emoji guide for your commit messages. Aims to be a standarization cheatshee /t for using emojis on GitHub's commit messages.

Michael Richins

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Add or update the UI and style files to your commit messages. Add or update analytics or track code to track code. Update code due to external API changes.

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What I don’t like about this approach is that it requires you to actually know the emoticons and their meaning. So, if an organization uses <code>gitmoji</code>, and a newcomer has no experience in this, he will constantly look for the right emoji. It can also lead to bigger commits from them (expect to see this as a normal reaction aiming to deal with a frustration of constant need for doing context switching and searching for the appropriate emoji). That said, this approach seems like a slowdown for new people and because first commits are highly important to gain confidence, it can lead to issues. I would prefer to use <a href="https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Conventional Commits</a> just because there are self-explanatory, and you’ll be able to understand them right from the first contact

Lovely, really like the 🚸
= Improve user experience / usability.

It would be better if something existed that automatically added the right emoji based on my commit message.

That’s really awesome!!!
It will change the commits forever 🤩