How to share Code Style settings between developers in IntelliJ

Question

I would like all developers on my team to use the same default code style settings. We all use IntelliJ 11+ as our IDE and we use git as our source control system.

Answer 1

I came across this long after the fact, but thought I'd share if anyone ran into this. Add the following to your .gitignore

# IDE - IntelliJ
/.idea/*
# Keep the code styles.
!/.idea/codeStyles
/.idea/codeStyles/*
!/.idea/codeStyles/Project.xml
!/.idea/codeStyles/codeStyleConfig.xml
# Keep the inspection levels
!/.idea/inspectionProfiles
/.idea/inspectionProfiles/*
!/.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml

And of course, make sure your .gitignore also has a ! in front of it so these changes get picked up.

Basically, gitignore's recursive looking is a little wonky, so the below ignores a directory's contents, except for a subdirectory, then ignores that subdirectory's contents, except for the files we want.

codeStyleConfig lets you use per project settings, the project file itself is your actual code styles, and I included the Project_Default as it holds the warning levels, which you likely want if you're doing the code style work anyways.