How to check IntelliJ project into version control?

[dhalperi]

For our open source project https://github.com/batfish/batfish, we would like to check in project configuration like shared scopes, run configurations, format settings, required plugins, etc. But I can't figure out how to get this to work.

(Draft: https://github.com/batfish/batfish/compare/master...dhalperi:idea , which also deletes the old Maven .idea project)

Following the IntelliJ instructions for directory-based projects, I checked in the recommended XML and IML files.

However, when we

1. Open the project in IntelliJ it recognizes .ijwb/.idea (and I trusted it)

   

   but does not turn on Bazel mode

   

2. Import the project as a new Bazel project, but of course it fails at import

   

I see hints that this is expected to work

• https://blog.bazel.build/2019/09/29/intellij-bazel-sync.html#portability-of-the-ijwb-directory says that at least some of the files can be checked in, and refers to IDEA's instructions. I'd expect process 1 to work?

Has anyone made this work / what are we missing?

[sgowroji]

Hello @dhalperi, Could you please reply if you still looking support for this issue with new Intellij release. Mostly the issue vanishes by restarting the IDE. Thanks!

[dhalperi]

Hi @sgowroji - the behavior here does not seem to have changed whatsoever.

Can you clone the repo and branch above, and give me step-by-step instructions for what you're doing?

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[dhalperi]

Should be listed as awaiting maintainer

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[dhalperi]

@bazelbuild/triage can you take the needed action if any?

[dhalperi]

Curious if the team has any update here?

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[dhalperi]

Definitely still needed. Who from the bazelbuild org will be looking at this? The bot being the only commenter is not useful nor a good customer experience.

[dhalperi]

@mai93 do you know how to set this correctly as awaiting the team?

[tpasternak]

@dhalperi I never seen the article from 2019 you shared above and didn't know this is an option at all. I can't promise we will fix that, but you could experiment by checking-in the .ijwb directory, and then using just File -> open -> .ijwb instead of Import bazel project.

Sorry for this answer but my load is too high to try/work on it now