Disable automatic project creation on git clone (Get from version control)
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Since the 2020 update, IntelliJ IDEA automatically creates projects and opens a seperate IntelliJ instance on cloning from gitlal (VCS -> Get from version control...).
In older versions a dialog appeared beforehand where you could choose to do this or not.
I couldn't find any posibility to disable this behaviour and I also couldn't find this topic in the forum.
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Could you please clarify, why do you need to clone something, but not open it?
What is the workflow?
I'm working with plugin based applications where every plugin is it's own gitlab project.
My workspace in IntelliJ looks similar to this:
So I'm working with a single IntelliJ instance, where I have several applications.
Each application contains several plugins which are seperate gitlab projects.
So if I clone a new plugin within an application, I just want the plugin to be added without makeing a IntelliJ project out of it and without opening a new instance.
(Hope the explanation is clear.)
Thanks for the clarification. It seems that ability to create a module from the cloned code would be a solution here.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-63087
The previous behavior (with a dialog upon cloning) is not available anymore. As a workaround, you could clone via the built-in terminal.
Thanks for the info.
I'll use the terminal for now.
Dmitriy Smirnov , I believe the question is quite straightforward and unrelated to the proposed solutions. The issue is that IntelliJ automatically opens a new project after a clone operation. How can this behavior be disabled?
Hi
This cannot be disabled.
Please feel free to open a Feature request on our YouTrack.