Comments on: IntelliJ IDEAs new directory-based project format

By: Joerg

Joerg — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:59:33 +0000

Good point. I never opened a project this way. Perhaps the people at Jetbrains can help you with that. They are usually very responsive. (http://devnet.jetbrains.net/community/idea/ideacommunity?view=discussions)

By: Gorka Siverio

Gorka Siverio — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:57:41 +0000

How can I open a directory-based IDEA project from Windows Explorer? Sometimes I prefer to just “click a project to open it”, as I could do with the .ipr file. It seems that now I need to first open IDEA, then open the project.

By: Joerg

Joerg — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:02:25 +0000

That’s true. Workspace.xml contains several individual settings. These should not be shared.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:38:43 +0000

Versioning workspace.xml was bringing me problems, now I know it haven’t to be under vcs

By: Joerg

Joerg — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:30:33 +0000

As far as I know you can share more settings this way than with the old files. Encodings are part of it. You can also share Run-Configurations this way. There is one file per configuration.

You are right there is an action “Open in New (Directory based) format” in 8.1.3. It is a bit misleading, as this action converts the project and then opens it.

Thanks for the tip.

By: strug

strug — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:24:56 +0000

did you know if you can now easily share settings – e.g. encodings.xml – by committing them into your vcs?

ps: the feature is already part of 8.x. but you remind me to better know my ide. i’m a happy monkey now, thanks:)