Can you make this feature an option that can be disabled?

In my case, I want to display only the first line. (GitLab also displays only the first line).

Just want to say thank you too. Great usability feature.

Very cool, but almost 2 years for such a small visual update?

Great addition, thanks!

You can now view multi-line commit messages in the commits listing. Additional lines will be shown inline after the first line to fill up available horizontal space. The full commit message (with line breaks) can be viewed as a tooltip on the commit listing.

I also want to add that it's kind of unworkable when receiving pull requests from private forks which contain multi line commits. You can only see the first line and if you don't have access to the private fork you can't see the full commit message in any way. This is super annoying when using the commit convention above.

This problem is kind of annoying when you use a commit convention like https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QrDFcIiPjSLDn3EL15IJygNPiHORgU1_OOAqWjiDU5Y/edit# and you can't see it in the web log. So I am also voting to be added, shouldn't be to hard after all.

I'm reopening this because there's clearly continued interest, but we're not actively working on this. I've re-added it to our pile of issues to triage.

What is the status of this bug, is it really going to remain at "wontfix"? I find it hard to convince my coworkers to write proper commit messages with title + body, when they argue that they can't see the body in the web log. So now they put everything in one line, making it really hard to read. I also support at least the simple idea of having the full message shown on hover, with possibly some indicator in the list that there is truncated contents.

Can we please view multi-line commit messages by hovering over them in the history listing.

Github does this and I find it invaluable, You can limit it to a hundred lines of so if you like. Multi-line commits are essential and need to be easily seen.