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We are using CVSNT and our users are identified by domain\username. From within the history annotation log, the authors are appearing as "domain\":
Hmm, I'm not part of any domain, so I can not test that. You're using the built-in client, right? Do you get the same result when using cvs.exe? Or you get correct domain\username in log when committing via cvs.exe?
After switching to the external cvs.exe (compiled for win32), the problem still appears. It's worthwhile to note that the commit succeeds and writes the correct author to the cvs repository. The problem seems to be with the actual reading of author data within the "History - annotate" view. hth~!
Aha, in such a case it's not a problem of the built-in client, but of the visualization component. Moving back to vcsgeneric module, we need to check the code and assure that the author name is not shortened in any way.
Did you check the raw text output of the command? It looks like the server already sent the user name shortened. It does not seem to be because of "\" character. When I have user "nb\martin" it displays "nb\marti". When I have user "notebook\martin" it displays just "notebook". It shortens the user name to 8 characters. This is how CVS works => resolving as invalid.