Prevent IntelliJ from adding iml files

Question

I\'m working with Maven pom files, and I don\'t wish to source control iml files. When I open a project, IntelliJ seems to add some of the iml files it creates to the SVN so

Answer 1

You can also choose to not have your .iml file in a versionned directory.

When you create the module, you can select the module file location.

Here my iml file will be in /ModuleName.iml but the content will by in /myRoot/