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Doesn't work in my gnome-terminal. Looks like the commands get escaped by git somehow. Did anybody test it?
Doesn't work on Xfce either. On a virtual terminal thingy (ctrl-alt-f1) it shows a grey background with white text. I suspect blink is only implemented on the Mac's terminal, not in Linux-land.
Anyway, they default to "linux" for more than a decade.
Haha, what a coincidence. Just the other day we discussed string special cases[0][1], to which I contributed ansi escapes. Unicode "fonts" 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 seem to work in commit messages as well. I think this is quite harmful, especially the character movement ansi escapes could be used for nefarious purposes. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10035008 [1] https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-str…
Has nothing to do with git, or committing, it just applies VT100 control codes that work anywhere in a compatible terminal.
So to be clear, the article isn't suggesting that e.g. github will interpret the ANSI escape sequences, but they will be when you `git log` from a command line, right?
Although I do wonder what havoc you could wreak on hosted git services with cunning sequences of control characters. Smacks of injection.
We just need a marquee now.
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Annoying your coworkers, for one
Just yesterday I ran across this example: "(っ˘▽˘)っ :cloud: ⊂(◕。◕⊂)" in the Parse SDK repo, which I found especially distracting, and in general, kind of turned me off from the project (even though I know Parse is awesome). I agree that UTF and special-chars should be permissable; I don't agree that if they don't actually communicate something, they should be used anyway. Maybe this cute 'moticon trend is trendy, but…
This reasoning turns me off from types who have it.
It's not like they use emoticons everywhere -- and if having one is the big distraction one can complaint about, then their repo is in excellent shape.
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Just yesterday I ran across this example: "(っ˘▽˘)っ :cloud: ⊂(◕。◕⊂)" in the Parse SDK repo, which I found especially distracting, and in general, kind of turned me off from the project (even though I know Parse is awesome). I agree that UTF and special-chars should be permissable; I don't agree that if they don't actually communicate something, they should be used anyway. Maybe this cute 'moticon trend is trendy, but…
I personally just find the committer to be immature, nothing else.
And all of their "serious" work will amount to absolutely nothing in just 100 years (that's it if they're lucky: for most their work wont matter at all in 10 or 20 years, their companies shuw down, or bought and dismantled, their startup dreams shattered etc.).
(A lot of them will even regret working so hard and giving importance to the BS they gave importance to after they retire).
Just to put some mature perspective on being playful.