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why should I have an `.idea` folder in my repository if Mike on my team uses Sublime and Joe uses Eclipse? how would the folder benefit them? Any Maven/Gradle project can be reimported by IntelliJ from sources without the `.idea` folder. It contains no information that can't be reconstructed from sources.

it only benefits other IDEA users. It contains things like project-specific inspections, code styles, etc, that _cannot_ be reconstructed from the sources just by importing in IntelliJ. If they could be reconstructed during the import process, why would JetBrains recommend including them in the repo?