Consider clean disable of Git

Being a Gui kind of guy, I prefer GitKraken. Admittedly I'm brand new to Intellij and it is very powerful. Every now and then I trip across something that takes 15-20 to work out. When creating my first projects I was clicking around and triggered IntelliJ wanting to access GIT. As I say, I'm using GitKraken, which was on the system already, and may have been running.  I inadvertently triggered something in IntelliJ to popup a box to install Microsoft Git.

At this point, all hell broke lose. Each time I tried to go back to GitKraken, it was confused. and IntelliJ was confused too, [I don't know, Maybe it already checked stuff in. ] I finally got control of things by telling IntelliJ that the path to git was “No Git Here” literally. Not a very elegant solution. But it seems to work, except for benign warning signals in various places in IntelliJ. At least I can see and control my local Git repo with GitKraken and intellij is not confused, only annoyed.

So. My suggestion:

Please consider a check box to disable calling git from inside IntelliJ. - maybe next to the git path. I'll bet there are other things that IntelliJ does that makes it Git friendly, esp during project creation. But at this point it does not play nice with GitKraken when making changes, and maybe other git providers. It may work fine if it's in control, but what if someone wants to use their own git rather than the one called by IntelliJ?

Maybe I'm confused and some simple setting somewhere will make these two git things play nice together, but it was pretty frustrating and “No Git Here” was the first thing I found that got Intellij to back off so I could use GitKraken. Maybe there's a way to point Intellij down inside of GitKraken so that they would work nicely together. But I have not found that yet.

Thanks again. IntelliJ is a ton better than Eclipse that I was using 5 years ago for Java work.

Now back to my JavaFx application.