Adding GIT support to existing project in IntelliJ IDEA

Question

I have multi-module project built with Maven. I imported only single sub-module (not parent) from that project as IDEA project, and looks like IDE doesn\'t recognize .git fo

Answer 1

In my case, we had recently upgraded from CVS to GIT (gasp). There were some old CVS specific files in the project (i.e. .cvsignore) that must have indicated to IntelliJ that this was a CVS project. I had to manually remove this file for IntelliJ to recognize the new .git folder and related files.