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Share project settings of IntelliJ IDEA in SVN

I want to share the project settings from IntelliJ IDEA in a Maven project over SVN. For example, the automatic download of JavaDoc and Sources for dependencies.

I think the settings are stored to ..\.idea\workspace.xml, but in the IntelliJ docs, I have read, that the workspace.xml should be ignored on SVN.

How can I share these project settings? Settings Sync is a cloud solution and Settings Repository needs a Git repository. Both are not possible for me at the moment.

Link to docs: IntelliJ IDEA Documentation | Configure project settings

Solution

  • You are correct - workspace.xml stores user-specific and machine-specific settings and it is generally not a good idea to share it via a VCS.

    In regards to the Maven settings located in the workspace.xml - there is a YouTrack Issue for that, which you can upvote and leave a comment with your use-case scenario to rise its' priority for the developers.