How to prevent IDEA from changing `misc.xml` and other files that shouldn't be changed by a PR?

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[Iaroslav Postovalov]

How to prevent IDEA from changing misc.xml and other files that shouldn't be changed by a PR?

[Marc Knaup]

That file should be in your .gitignore anyway? 🤔

[Marc Knaup]

That’s mine:
https://github.com/fluidsonic/fluid-react/blob/main/.gitignore

[Iaroslav Postovalov]

@Marc Knaup I mean .idea/misc.xml in the Kotlin project...

[Iaroslav Postovalov]

I can't add it to gitignore , but IDEA changes it

[Marc Knaup]

If I understand you correctly you don’t want Git Pull Requests to change .idea/misc.xml. Is that correct?
In that case the problem is that the file is in Git in the first place. It shouldn’t be.

You can’t prevent the IDE from changing these files. They’re there solely for the IDE because it needs them 😅
Some make sense to be added to Git but most shouldn’t be.

[tginiotis]

@Iaroslav Postovalov another approach - https://stackoverflow.com/a/936290

[alllex]

@Marc Knaup

In that case the problem is that the file is in Git in the first place. It shouldn’t be.

You would be surprised then:
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/.idea

[Marc Knaup]

Interesting. I wish IDEA would split all configuration files so that it’s clear what can be put into Git and what is user-specific. Some files are one or the other and some files seem to be mixed 😕

[alllex]

As much as it does not make sense in the Kotlin project context, I am on the side of not having IDE-specific files in version control.

But there are certain steps towards a better world from JB. Quite recently, they introduced a new location for run configurations (.run directory instead of .idea/runConfigurations ). I think it is related exactly to that problem.

[Marc Knaup]

I don’t like the .run folder. Naming it like that implies that it’s not IDE-specific but it still is.

I’m absolutely pro adding IDE configuration to Git. You want everyone in the team to operate with the same environment or else you’ll get chaos.

[alllex]

But you see, it’s not IDE specific configuration that you need in Git, it’s build/lint/style specific things. Those can and should be IDE-independent.

[Marc Knaup]

Yes, but there is no standard for that and it’s unlikely that someone will solve that in the near future. IDEs are just too different.
So until that happened we’re stuck with what we have.