I'd love to be able to see longer branch names #42199
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See, the project I'm working on has very long branch names that usually have a pattern
bugfix/ISSUE-123456-VERSION-whatever-the-name-is. This leaves very little space for the actual descriptive part of the branch name in the current UI. In some cases, I don't see it at all.Three cases:
A. The title bar. It has a lot of real estate yet my branch name has ellipsis:
I'd prefer to be able to see the whole branch name. This current design would have been acceptable if I could see it by hovering on the button, but I can't.
B. The git panel:
At least when hovering on the items in the list (1) gives me the tooltip with the name, but the width of (2) just adds insult to injury
C. The branch picker:

I think it's wide enough to fit all the information I need and it's demonstrated by the second lines with smaller text.
I know that most of these widths are static and most users don't need wide menus. Is it possible to make some configuration keys that either let these strings take as much space as the UI allows and only adding ellipsis if they need to be wider?
I myself can come up with two solutions, UI-wise:
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