From 1c852c25df52476b73aa6f6da7330f0cbf8e7753 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 01:22:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add utility method shortening a string to a maximum length

Change-Id: I6d354e065688b6dc1c891d4d95096ad57e6c8309
Signed-off-by: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>
---
 .../src/org/eclipse/egit/core/internal/Utils.java           | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/org.eclipse.egit.core/src/org/eclipse/egit/core/internal/Utils.java b/org.eclipse.egit.core/src/org/eclipse/egit/core/internal/Utils.java
index bca96ecd2..eb854fa07 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.egit.core/src/org/eclipse/egit/core/internal/Utils.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.egit.core/src/org/eclipse/egit/core/internal/Utils.java
@@ -63,4 +63,17 @@ public class Utils {
 		}
 		return result.toString();
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @param text
+	 * @param maxLength
+	 * @return {@code text} shortened to {@code maxLength} characters if its
+	 *         string length exceeds {@code maxLength} and an ellipsis is
+	 *         appended to the shortened text
+	 */
+	public static String shortenText(final String text, final int maxLength) {
+		if (text.length() > maxLength)
+			return text.substring(0, maxLength - 1) + "\u2026"; // ellipsis "…" (in UTF-8) //$NON-NLS-1$
+		return text;
+	}
 }
-- 
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