--- a/templates/filelogentry.tmpl
+++ b/templates/filelogentry.tmpl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <table class="parity#parity#" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
 <tr>
  <td align="right" width="15%"><b>#date|age# ago:&nbsp;</b></td>
- <td><b><a href="?cs=#node|short#">#desc|firstline|escape#</a></b></td></tr>
+ <td><b><a href="?cs=#node|short#">#desc|strip|firstline|escape#</a></b></td></tr>
 <tr>
  <td align="right">revision #filerev#:&nbsp;</td>
  <td><a href="?f=#filenode|short#;file=#file#">#filenode|short#</a>