[m000]

How it started: "It would be great if you could categorize changes using 5–10 colors and then have checkboxes that you can toggle to hide code corresponding to a color."

How it's going: https://gitmoji.dev/

IMHO, the novelty wears out fast. Especially when your git history starts looking like a Messages thread.

[haglin]

It would be in the "Files changed" section on GitHub, not in the git history. If you don't want to see the context, you can turn it off.