How to make your git messages more interesting?
A few months ago I noticed a colleague using emoticons in his git commits. Intrigued, I began adding emoticons as well - albeit without following any structure though. I usually used the coffee ☕️ one a lot.
Once another colleague discovered and shared the origin of this concept, I immediately adopted it.
This not only makes the process more interesting but is also easier to read especially at a glance when looking at your past commits.
The ones I used most:
- work in progress 🚧
- adding a test ✔️
- general update ⚡️
- refactor code 🔨
- lint 👕
- configuration 🔧
I usually write my commits in a way that I can briefly know what I did and write my task reports from it the next days - also handy for daily meetings.