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The most recent Github update hides the latest commit message on a project page. Instead, it only shows the author, commit date, and SHA:
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This seems like a misfeature to me - there's always enough space to display at least part of the commit message. Seeing a commit message by default is much more useful than a SHA - I have no reason to want to copy a SHA until I know what the commit does.
I think it would be useful to hide the SHA and use the extra space to display as much of the commit message as will fit.

Maybe we can just expand the commit message by default.
There is a problem that the commit message can be lengthy, like Linux kernel:

posted by kidonng almost 5 years ago
posted by Aaron1011 almost 5 years ago 
That's not much help for repositories with many top-level files (e.g. git), though it's an interesting idea.
posted by sersorrel almost 5 years ago
posted by kidonng almost 5 years ago 
posted by fregante almost 5 years ago 
posted by fregante over 4 years ago 
its comming back

posted by yakov116 over 4 years ago
They're onto us!!
However that change moves 2 links next to the branch selector, breaking latest-tag-button
posted by fregante over 4 years ago
@fregante Changing the selector from .breadcrumb
to .file-navigation .flex-auto
works on both layout, but...

Change it to #branch-select-menu
(append it after the branch select button), better but still not ideal:

posted by kidonng over 4 years ago