Gitextensions: Long branch name overflows in dashboard

[drewnoakes]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Bug

What is the current behavior?

If a branch name is long, it overflows adjacent repositories in the dashboard:

What is the expected behavior?

Text is truncated with ellipsis or similar.

Environment you encounter the issue:

• GitExtensions version: beta1

[RussKie]

Ah yes, tiles width is calculated based on the longest repository path and
doesn't account for branch names.
Few possible options - truncate long branches (as you suggested) or account
for branch name when calculating tiles width. The former is probably
easier, and wouldn't have a significant effect on UX.

On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 23:49, Drew Noakes [e-mail] wrote:

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Bug

What is the current behavior?

If a branch name is long, it overflows adjacent repositories in the
dashboard:

[image: image]
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/350947/47501135-9a2c8580-d85c-11e8-9b28-a7c446fc6699.png

What is the expected behavior?

Text is truncated with ellipsis or similar.

Environment you encounter the issue:

• GitExtensions version: beta1

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[gerhardol]

Propose truncate branch names

[anaplian]

I'll have a go at this if that's OK :slightly_smiling_face: