Project file overwritten when IntelliJ opens project but no user action was taken. Makes source control difficult.

Hello Christian,

Please file JIRA issues at http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/ specifying which
exactly XML fragments are incorrectly modified.

I've posted this as a response to another thread, but since it was
marked as resolved, I figure no-one at Jetbrains has read it...

The basic symptom is the project file is rewritten depending on the
user in the team. Sometimes the change is a reordering of some
elements. Other times dumb things like the debug port in a run
configuration is changed - this one can happen for the same user (If
the debug port is dynamic then the se

tting should say "dynamic" not change every time a new port is used).
Or settings for a plugin are put there. This makes putting a project
file under source control very difficult to manage without error
because it's difficult to know if the change should really be
committed.

Is there a way to prevent this? The closest I've come is to use the
directory based format. Using this we can add the file names for
settings files for individual developer plugins to the ignore list of
the source control app, but we can't prevent the debug port from being
overwritten or the element

s from being reordered.

My Environment is Windows XP, JDK 1.6.0_10, and Idea 8.1 Build # 9732

Regards,
Christian maslen
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