95% of the commits on my personal open source projects use emoji commit messages. https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/commit-emoji

PRs matter a lot more than commit messages, especially if you're squashing + merging / rebasing.

Honest question, do you really expect your history to be meaningful long-term? Or are you simply taking the approach that the commit message is meaningless and a developer instead use GitHub search to find a PR relevant to a change they're investigating.

For example, I pulled up one of your projects and the history (https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/kwote/commits/main) is less than meaningless, compared to i.e. using emojis as a shorthand (https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/commits/master)

Fastapi use gitmoji [0], this is well-documented and structured.

[0] -- https://gitmoji.dev/

That's... horrible.

You mean the entire developer's thought process behind a change will be represented by a single 12x16 picture? Even hieroglyphs were more expressive than that.

No, look at the log of FastAPI (or even gitmoji itself: https://github.com/carloscuesta/gitmoji) and you'll see that i.e. the bug emoji serves *only* to replace "bugfix: " at the beginning of the commit message, not the entirety.