Eclipse History view broken

Question

by double-clicking in between the headers of the Eclipse History view (Revision, Tags, etc.) each fields gets resized (enlarged to the right) to accommodate the size of the longest value.

Now, because my Tags columns contains very long values (long strings containing the list of tags) when I double-clicked on the headers between Tags and the next header (Revision Time), the Tags column got enlarged to the right so much that the Revision Time column has disappeared.

I can't find a way to get to the Revision Time column. Scrolling to the right using the horizontal scroll line is useless.

Any idea? Thank you!

Answer 1

had this happen with eclipse 3.7 on Windows

as per https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=313480

• close Eclipse
• delete .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.team.cvs.ui/dialog _settings.xml file
• start Eclipse
• do history and see it work

Answer 2

I have the same. Thanks to Dev. I found the answer The Author column in the CVS history disappeared from Eclipse

Go to the path $WORKSPACE/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.team.cvs.ui in your filesystem. Where $WORKSPACE is the directory that has your Eclipse workspace.

Edit the file dialog_settings.xml in that directory.

find <item value="put something reasonable here" key="COL_TAGS"/>