No Emotes

🚫 Strip emojis from your code before pushing - automatically.
Clean commits. Safe pipelines. Zero friction.

Overview

No Emotes is a VS Code extension that automatically removes emojis from your staged files before pushing to GitHub.

It acts as a last-line safety filter between your local code and your remote repository — ensuring logs, pipelines, and production code stay clean and predictable.

Why This Exists

Emojis are great for:

Personal projects
Debugging locally

They are not great for:

CI/CD pipelines
Log parsers
Production systems
Professional codebases

Even a single emoji can:

Break encoding
Corrupt logs
Cause unexpected parsing errors

No Emotes eliminates that risk entirely.

Features

✔️ Automatic emoji stripping
Removes all Unicode emojis (including ZWJ sequences & variation selectors)

✔️ Smart cleanup
No double spaces. No broken indentation.

✔️ Selective processing
Only processes safe file types — skips binaries automatically

✔️ Auto re-staging
Files are cleaned and re-added to staging instantly

✔️ Pre-push preview
See exactly what changed before pushing

✔️ Helpful Git guidance
Gives exact commands if upstream branch is missing

✔️ Progress feedback
Live VS Code notifications during push

✔️ Environment validation
Checks Git availability on activation

Usage

# 1. Stage your files
git add .

# 2. Open Command Palette
Ctrl + Shift + P

# 3. Run:
No Emotes: Clean & Push

Then:

Review the summary modal Click Push or Cancel

Supported File Types

| Extension | Description | | --------- | ----------- | | `.py` | Python | | `.js` | JavaScript | | `.ts` | TypeScript | | `.md` | Markdown | | `.txt` | Text | | `.log` | Logs |

Safety Rules

Rule	Behavior
Max file size	5 MB
Symlinks	Skipped
Deleted files	Ignored
Empty files	Passed through
Encoding	UTF-8 BOM removed

Known Issues

Multi-root workspaces → only first folder is used Unsupported file types are always skipped

Requirements

Git installed and available in PATH
Open folder must be a Git repository
Files must be staged before running

Release Notes

v0.0.1

Initial release

Emoji stripping (full Unicode support)

Clean & Push command

Pre-push summary modal

Upstream branch detection

License

MIT

Keep your commits clean. 🚫
Because production code isn't the place for emojis.

Anish Kalbhor