Some time ago, the GitHub service announced the ability to use emotional Emoji icons in all its GFM markup .

Few people know that emotional icons can be used not only in comments to pull requests and issues, but also in commit messages !

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This article is for informational purposes only and the practical application of this material is not welcome in real projects.

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Adding icons to commits is easy:

git commit --message='   :metal:' 

To get acquainted with a full set of emotional icons offers an open project EMOJI CHEAT SHEET

Statistics of the popularity of using emotional icons on GitHub (relevant at the time of launch):


Currently, the list of services that support Emoji includes: Campfire, GitHub, Gist, Basecamp, Teambox, Trac, Flowdock, Sprint.ly, Kandan, Textbox.io, Kippt, GitLab, JabbR, Trello, Hall, plug.dj, Qiita, Zendesk, Ruby China, Grove and Idobata, VK.

A small list of libraries that will help implement emoji support in your project:

https://github.com/hassankhan/emojify.js
https://github.com/fengmk2/emoji
https://github.com/iamcal/js-emoji

Additional links:

Emoji
EMOJI CHEAT SHEET
iOS Emoji
All-Github-Emoji-Icons

Demo

Emotional commits!