If the changelog contains anyones username (@ + username), GitHub will dutifully notify that person that they have been mentioned. This is not nice for our generated changelogs, as it spams people and brings no value (the mention is not intentional). To retain the display, yet avoid notification, we print '@' followed by an UNICODE WORD JOINER character (that has zero width, but prevents splitting at this boundary), followed by the username.
infinisil
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4 years ago
If the changelog contains anyones username (@ + username), GitHub will dutifully notify that person that they have been mentioned. This is not nice for our generated changelogs, as it spams people and brings no value (the mention is not intentional). To retain the display, yet avoid notification, we print '@' followed by an UNICODE WORD JOINER character (that has zero width, but prevents splitting at this boundary), followed by the username.