Show more characters for branch/tag name in Pipeline/Job views

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Problem to solve

Show more characters for branch/tag name in Pipeline/Job list

Screenshot_2019-05-23_Pipelines___GitLab_org_Build_CNG

Intended users

Developers / DevOps / SysAdmins

Further details

Just a cosmetic change to have more info on long branch/tag names at a first sight

Proposal

So far around 11 characters are displayed, follow by ..., if the branch/tag name is longer. This could be confusing when having long branch/tag names to quickly identify which pipeline/job was triggered for which branch/tag.
If branch/tag have long names and start with same prefix, the only way to identify them is mouse-over them to see the full name in the tooltip.
There's unsed horizontal space on those views, so I guess won't be a problem to show more characters and adjust the columns.

Permissions and Security

No security issues, just a cosmetic change

Testing

Just an UI change

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

More characters on branch/tag name are displayed

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Edited Jun 29, 2025 by 🤖 GitLab Bot 🤖
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