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It's nice how these emoji in [2] do not offer any advantage at all. In fact, they're worse than the appropriate words ("bump", "fix") because I can't Ctrl-F for them.

I really do not understand the attraction to it. It makes things harder to read and understand. It can destroy terminal formatting. They're harder to type on physical keyboards.

I don't often use emoji unironically in my personal life, but in computing tools it should be anathema.

That's not GitHub but the Atom maintainers' commit style.

I realize my phrasing was ambiguous, I meant GitHub as an organization, who maintain Atom, use Emoji in that project.

Are the emojis ([2]) actually from GitHub? I have never seen them in my repos.