Exclude folder in intellij idea using Maven

Question

We are using maven to manage our idea projects but I\'m having a problem excluding a directory from the idea project.

Using idea, I would just go to Project Settings

Answer 1

I just did a small test and, with the following snippet:

  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-idea-plugin
  
    test-output,.clover,logs
  

The generated .iml file contains the following entries:

Which is to my knowledge the expected result.

Do you get something different? Are you expecting somehting else?