The Author column in the CVS history disappeared from Eclipse

Question

It happened since yesterday that the Author column in the CVS history disappeared in my Eclipse IDE. I have gone through all the menus in Eclipse and all kinds of Google search but couldn't figured out how to add it back. Does anyone have a clue on it?

I am using the latest Eclipse (Helios) on 64-bit Windows 7. I used the following steps to show CVS history: right click the file name under Project Explorer => Team => Show History.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This happened in my eclipse as well. Unfortunately the other answers did not help me but I was able to fix it by manually editing the cvs plugins stored preference.

Close 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.

You should see an item element with the attribute key="COL_AUTHOR" change the value attribute to be non-zero (I set mine to 100). Specifically, the Xpath for the attribute your trying to change is //section[@name="org.eclipse.team.internal.ccvs.ui.CVSHistoryTableProvider"]/item[@key="COL_AUTHOR"]/@value

Start up Eclipse and the problem should be fixed.