Use a sidebar in Commit detail view
Proposal
With Better display of tags and branches in commit d... (#325871 - closed) for clarity and better scanability, we separated commits, branches, and tags into their individual rows. As a result the area this takes up for the same information takes up 3 rows which is larger than the previous iteration of one row. In pixel terms this is an increase from 58px to 174px.
The downside of this is that it is pushing the details of the commits down the page further.
A concept is to use the larger width layout of the new MR pages to display information about parent commits, branches, and tags in a sidebar. This sidebar would be sticky when scrolling so that the context of the commit metadata would be visible.
This is a concept for now. Will need to see if the display of the content is a problem for users.
Rows (default) | Sidebar |
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