While talking to tfennelly about this seemingly unnecessary line wrap, he made a comment that the full date format currently used is often too verbose. His suggestion was to use a date divider in the history, like this:

      --- Oct 30, 2014 -------
      #7526   13:56    .......
      #7525   13:40    .......
      #7524   13:20    .......
      

      Some jobs are triggered multiple times a day, while other jobs are triggered once in a quarter. The improvement would have to cover such a wide range.

          [JENKINS-25381] Build history widget verbosity

          Kohsuke Kawaguchi created issue -
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          BTW, my original comment was just to avoid line wrapping. Screenshot attached.

          Kohsuke Kawaguchi added a comment - BTW, my original comment was just to avoid line wrapping. Screenshot attached.
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          Doing a no-wrap and overflow can also make it look terrible.

          Tom FENNELLY added a comment - Doing a no-wrap and overflow can also make it look terrible.
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          Experimented with adding a date separator. See attachement http://goo.gl/iGLRDD . Wdyt ?

          Tom FENNELLY added a comment - Experimented with adding a date separator. See attachement http://goo.gl/iGLRDD . Wdyt ?
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          Labels Original: user-experience New: buildhistory user-experience

            tfennelly Tom FENNELLY
            kohsuke Kohsuke Kawaguchi
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