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It increases barrier of entry with something that is really arbitrary and not easy to remember unless you have a cheat-sheet in front of you.

I have lots of commit rules in all my projects but they're simple, straightforward, and easy to remember because they're useful and commonplace. eg "Short one-line commit message, more details in the paragraph beneath it, atomic commits with single change per commit, no individual commit breaks the tests".

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If you can't remember that the "silly" project has a "silly rule" in place, and you won't remember any time you look at "git log" results, then I really don't know what to tell you.

That's simple enough: have a text file with the emoji saved somewhere handy, or use a text macro expander to replace :colon_style_markup: with real emoji. If you don't already have an emoji input widget on hand, that is.

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