When could I finally let share the project files in IntelliJ?
Hello,
we decided (..again) to share the project files and exclude the ones that are recommended to exclude. However, it is really painful to share IntelliJ project files currently. You have to be aware, that only just a simple click to one of the submodules, you will have some change in .iml, compiler.xml or whatever. JetBrains... we have a projects which consists of 10 submodules, and sharing this project among developers is really pain. Also it makes problems in our TeamCity as there are often conflicts in IML files.
And yes, we have to share the project files, because of running configurations for example. We have 20 configurations and they must be shared. However, some of them works with absolute path (Batch file), I mean come on, how can I share the Running configurations if they have absolute paths?
I do not how it works in Visual Studio, but there it worked. Here I get 10 changes in 20 files if I add just one Maven library.
Is there any improvement in this on your roadmap?
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Just clicking in submodules should not cause changes in .iml files, please file a bug at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/IDEA with the steps to reproduce and a sample project.
Run configurations can be shared separately from the module files in case they are generated: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/articles/206544839.
We work on IntelliJ IDEA project with the team of 100+ developers, this project has 100+ modules and dozens of TeamCity configurations, we never observe the problems you have described.
The paths in the Run/Debug configurations are stored relatively when possible. If you are using a third-party plug-in for Batch files support you may want to file a bug for this plug-in so that the developer fixes it.