From ebe3acf408fa8242ec6fe9e2fcb21d4ecb186f1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jessica McKellar <jesstess@zulip.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:40:34 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Generalize elide_subject in case the max topic length
 changes.

(imported from commit 6ffdd42d39580149a83869d6aff88bad8940fe02)
---
 zerver/views/webhooks.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/zerver/views/webhooks.py b/zerver/views/webhooks.py
index c658012d86..30798ff555 100644
--- a/zerver/views/webhooks.py
+++ b/zerver/views/webhooks.py
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ def build_message_from_gitlog(user_profile, name, ref, commits, before, after, u
 
 def elide_subject(subject):
     if len(subject) > MAX_SUBJECT_LENGTH:
-        subject = subject[:57].rstrip() + '...'
+        subject = subject[:MAX_SUBJECT_LENGTH - 3].rstrip() + '...'
     return subject
 
 def guess_zulip_user_from_jira(jira_username, realm):