Disabling JAR caching

The command-line flag to disable caching of JARS was posted last week but

I

can't find it. can someone please repost it? Thanks.

-Didea.jars.nocopy=true

What, actually, is the purpose of the jar caching?
Is it to speed up access where Jars might be on a network drive?

What is the downside to disabling jar caching?

Thanks,
Nick

jars opened by IDEA cannot be copied over. So copying them to a cache prevents write conflicts, if you run jobs that try to overwrite the jars while IDEA is referencing them. Why IDEA also makes copies of the JDK jars (including source) is beyond me..

OK. Understood.
This would be a problem with ant integration. The ant stcript may fetch the jars over the top of the exising ones...

-Nick

Why IDEA also makes copies of the JDK jars (including source) is beyond

me..

It doesn't anymore (the fix added on one of the latest builds before
release).

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jars opened by IDEA cannot be copied over. So copying them to a cache

prevents write conflicts, if you run jobs that try to overwrite the jars
while IDEA is referencing them. Why IDEA also makes copies of the JDK jars
(including source) is beyond me..