Focus-stealing from DVCS commands

When I'm developing using a DVCS (git or hg), I frequently switch between working in intellij for a few minutes at a time, to working in a terminal, especially when doing pushes, pulls, rebases, or merges on commit chains.

Intellij becomes infuriating and maddening at such times. My focus is in the terminal, I execute some git command, and start to type the next command at the bash prompt, and the last half of the command ends up in some random edit window inside intellij.

WHY DOES INTELLIJ THINK IT KNOWS WHAT I WANT TO WORK ON RIGHT NOW?!? Especially when it's wrong.

On some commands, Intellij stays inactive and lets me continue my work, but in other cases it grabs focus. I never know when it's going to do that.