Missing Author field in Eclipse Team view

Okay so a few days ago I was installing some plugins for my SpringSource Tool Suite IDE and somehow corrupted the Team view such that it no longer displayed the Author field. After some Googling I was not able to find a solution so started digging into the plugins. Well the solution is pretty simple:

locate the dialog_settings.xml file in the {workspace}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.team.cvs.ui directory

open with favorite xml/text editor and look for this section, my issue had COL_AUTHOR had a value of 0, I changed to 135 and restarted Eclipse. All is well.

<section name="org.eclipse.team.internal.ccvs.ui.CVSHistoryTableProvider" >
<item value="188" key="COL_DATE"/>
<item value="277" key="COL_COMMENT"/>
<item value="136" key="COL_TAGS"/>
<item value="128" key="SORT_COL_DIRECTION"/>
<item value="COL_TAGS" key="SORT_COL_NAME"/>
<item value="160" key="COL_REVISIONID"/>
<item value="135" key="COL_AUTHOR"/>
</section>




Hope this was helpful.