Blinking Commits

<p><pre><code> git commit -F &lt;(curl https:&#x2F;&#x2F;raw.githubusercontent.com&#x2F;thiderman&#x2F;doge&#x2F;master&#x2F;doge&#x2F;static&#x2F;doge.txt) # [0] </code></pre> Oh god do I feel bad about this. What have I done?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thiderman&#x2F;doge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thiderman&#x2F;doge</a>

Funny timing, with the recent &quot;Terminal escape sequence XSS&quot; post on oss-security in mind: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openwall.com&#x2F;lists&#x2F;oss-security&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;11&#x2F;8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openwall.com&#x2F;lists&#x2F;oss-security&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;11&#x2F;8</a>

Regrettably (?), you can&#x27;t use this to implement marquee.<p>But you can make your text black with a black background. Or re-order lines, which I suspect to be &quot;fun&quot; for git logs.

iTerm2 supports images in the terminal. May as well take this as far as it will go.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iterm2.com&#x2F;images.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iterm2.com&#x2F;images.html</a><p>Edit: even animated gifs

I actually quite like the idea of control codes in commit messages for internal teams where you can implement rules.<p>It could be useful for highlighting risky commits in red or other visual markers.<p>Would play merry hell with almost every other way of viewing commits though :D

Has nothing to do with git, or committing, it just applies VT100 control codes that work anywhere in a compatible terminal.

Anyone know if an issue has been opened (or any relevant discussion on the dev list) on stripping escape sequences? It <i>does</i> seem like it could be harmful.

To insert a literal character (like the Escape entered in this post) in Emacs, use C-q.

Of course, you can also use other escape codes to make your commits colored (e.g. [92m for green), underlined ([4m), etc.

So, 1990&#x27;s Geocities commits are now a thing again? ^[[5m#UNDER CONSTRUCTION^[[0m

The writing style is clever and funny. You should keep writing!

I think this post just changed my position on censorship :p

Will it still work if I omit the closing bracket? Or put it in a different commit message, further down the page?

This is a really entertaining writing style: technical enlightenment through demonstration via humorous examples. For the lazy (and additional humorous demonstration), I wish he&#x27;d provided an example gif showing it in action (i.e., Github, terminal, Sourcetree, etc...).

In the world of ANSI escape codes and terminal emulators things are never that easy.<p>Works for OS X apparently.

Haha, what a coincidence. Just the other day we discussed string special cases[0][1], to which I contributed ansi escapes. Unicode &quot;fonts&quot; 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 seem to work in commit messages as well.<p>I think this is quite harmful, especially the character movement ansi escapes could be used for nefarious purposes.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10035008" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10035008</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;minimaxir&#x2F;big-list-of-naughty-strings&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;blns.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;minimaxir&#x2F;big-list-of-naughty-strings&#x2F;blo...</a>

This works for me in OS X&#x27;s built-in Terminal app, but not iTerm. Both report xterm-256color as $TERM, so I&#x27;m not sure what about iTerm is configured differently to prevent it from working there.

I wonder if GitHub do&#x2F;will support this and parse it to HTML

Doesn&#x27;t work in my gnome-terminal. Looks like the commands get escaped by git somehow. Did anybody test it?

Who remembers when most of the blogs syndicating discussions about RSS all started blinking at once, when somebody posted an item whose title was &quot;What happens when you put a &lt;blink&gt; tag into the title?&quot;

Every time I use a control character, my mind strays back to CHR$141.<p>Although I do wonder what havoc you could wreak on hosted git services with cunning sequences of control characters. Smacks of injection.

First emojis, now blinking text, this has to stop.

Can you turn it off? I&#x27;d imagine a big project (e.g. Linux Kernel) could start to look like a Christmas tree...

ok now i need a spam filter for git log - everything is flashing like &quot;look at my nice changes here!&quot; :)

You were more concerned with whether or not you could you never stopped to think whether or not you should

After the emoji, the blinking... Will git commits become like the 2000s web? :p

We just need a marquee now.

All this talk about ASCII control codes and no one mentions 0x07 aka ␇?

Surely, there is a way to do this in Sublime?