diff --git a/app/helpers/repositories_helper.rb b/app/helpers/repositories_helper.rb
index 1a82bb8ce..d41977d29 100644
--- a/app/helpers/repositories_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/repositories_helper.rb
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ module RepositoriesHelper
     txt.to_s[0,8]
   end
   
+  def truncate_at_line_break(text, length = 255)
+    if text
+      text.gsub(%r{^(.{#{length}}[^\n]*)\n.+$}m, '\\1...')
+    end
+  end
+  
   def render_properties(properties)
     unless properties.nil? || properties.empty?
       content = ''
diff --git a/app/views/repositories/_revisions.rhtml b/app/views/repositories/_revisions.rhtml
index a938fecb8..d8ca8007a 100644
--- a/app/views/repositories/_revisions.rhtml
+++ b/app/views/repositories/_revisions.rhtml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 <td class="checkbox"><%= radio_button_tag('rev_to', changeset.revision, (line_num==2), :id => "cbto-#{line_num}", :onclick => "if ($('cb-#{line_num}').checked==true) {$('cb-#{line_num-1}').checked=true;}") if show_diff && (line_num > 1) %></td>
 <td class="committed_on"><%= format_time(changeset.committed_on) %></td>
 <td class="author"><%=h changeset.committer.to_s.split('<').first %></td>
-<td class="comments"><%= textilizable(changeset.comments) %></td>
+<td class="comments"><%= textilizable(truncate_at_line_break(changeset.comments)) %></td>
 </tr>
 <% line_num += 1 %>
 <% end %>