diff --git a/kallithea/public/css/style.css b/kallithea/public/css/style.css
--- a/kallithea/public/css/style.css
+++ b/kallithea/public/css/style.css
@@ -1510,10 +1510,9 @@ tr.out-of-range {
 
 #graph_content tr td.mid .message,
 #graph_content_pr .compare_view_commits .message {
-    white-space: pre-wrap;
+    white-space: nowrap;
     padding: 0;
     overflow: hidden;
-    height: 1.2em;
 }
 
 #graph_content_pr .compare_view_commits .message {
diff --git a/kallithea/templates/changelog/changelog.html b/kallithea/templates/changelog/changelog.html
--- a/kallithea/templates/changelog/changelog.html
+++ b/kallithea/templates/changelog/changelog.html
@@ -104,12 +104,16 @@ ${self.repo_context_bar('changelog', c.f
                         <td class="date">
                             <div class="date" data-toggle="tooltip" title="${h.fmt_date(cs.date)}">${h.age(cs.date,True)}</div>
                         </td>
+                        <% message_lines = cs.message.splitlines() %>
                         <td class="expand_commit" title="${_('Expand commit message')}">
                             <i class="icon-align-left"></i>
                         </td>
                         <td class="mid">
                             <div class="log-container">
-                                <div class="message">${h.urlify_text(cs.message, c.repo_name,h.url('changeset_home',repo_name=c.repo_name,revision=cs.raw_id))}</div>
+                                <div class="message">
+                                    <div class="message-firstline">${h.urlify_text(message_lines[0], c.repo_name,h.url('changeset_home',repo_name=c.repo_name,revision=cs.raw_id))}</div>
+                                    <div class="message-full hidden">${h.urlify_text(cs.message, c.repo_name)}</div>
+                                </div>
                                 <div class="extra-container">
                                     %if c.comments.get(cs.raw_id):
                                         <a class="comments-container comments-cnt" href="${c.comments[cs.raw_id][0].url()}" data-toggle="tooltip" title="${_('%s comments') % len(c.comments[cs.raw_id])}">
@@ -286,7 +290,7 @@ ${self.repo_context_bar('changelog', c.f
                 });
 
                 $('.expand_commit').on('click',function(e){
-                    $(this).next('.mid').find('.message').toggleClass('expanded');
+                    $(this).next('.mid').find('.message > div').toggleClass('hidden');
 
                     //redraw the graph, r and jsdata are bound outside function
                     graph.render(jsdata);