Awesome
gimoji
A CLI tool that makes it easy to add emojis to your git commit messages. It's very similar to (and is based on) gitmoji-cli but written in Rust.
Installation
Fedora (>= 37)
sudo dnf install gimoji
Other OSes
cargo install -f gimoji
Usage
gimoji
is primarily intended to be used as a git prepare-commit-msg
hook. Once installed, ask
gimoji
to install the hook in your repository:
cd /path/to/your/project/
gimoji --init
Now, whenever you run git commit
, gimoji
will kick in and prompt you to choose an emoji.
If you launch gimoji
directly without any arguments, it will prompt you to choose an emoji and
then copy your choice to the system clipboard.
Use --help
to see all the available options.
Rationale
gitmoji-cli while being a great tool, can be considerably slow. Hence this project. gimoji
has a
few differences:
- it will launch a full-screen terminal UI to choose an emoji, hence emojis on the console.
- it will only add an emoji prefix to the commit if one is not already present in the commit
message (e.g when using
-m
option ofgit commit
, or when amending a commit). - it does not add anything other than an emoji (like scope, summary etc.) to the commit message and lets you do that in your preferred editor.
- Unlike gitmoji-cli that downloads and caches its emoji database at runtime,
gimoji
uses a pre-compiled database that is included in the binary itself, hence it's much faster to start up and does not need Internet access.
The philosophy here is to enable you to quickly and easily choose an emoji and get out of your way.