IntelliJ: Linked Folder feature?

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Jason Osgood

2014-04-24 16:52:07 UTC

One feature of Eclipse that I miss terribly in IntelliJ is the Linked Folder. It allows me to “include” a project’s logs, config, data files in the Eclipse project navigator without actually including them within the project’s source tree.

Has anyone found a workaround for IntelliJ?

I tried creating OS symlinks. IntelliJ doesn’t honor them.

Forgive me; I think I asked this before. I don’t recall the hivemind’s answer.

Cheers, Jason

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Stewart Buskirk

2014-04-24 16:58:44 UTC

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Jason,

When you edit the module settings, there is a Sources tab. Mine has a "+ Add Content Root" button at the top of the right panel. You can choose an arbitrary folder from that dialog, and then that folder will show up in the project folder tree on the same level as the primary module root folder (as a sibling).

I am using IDEA v.13.

-Stewart

Post by Jason Osgood
One feature of Eclipse that I miss terribly in IntelliJ is the Linked Folder. It allows me to “include” a project’s logs, config, data files in the Eclipse project navigator without actually including them within the project’s source tree.
Has anyone found a workaround for IntelliJ?
I tried creating OS symlinks. IntelliJ doesn’t honor them.
Forgive me; I think I asked this before. I don’t recall the hivemind’s answer.
Cheers, Jason
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Konstantin Ignatyev

2014-04-24 16:59:41 UTC

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how about good-ol' symlinks ?

Post by Stewart Buskirk
Jason,
When you edit the module settings, there is a Sources tab. Mine has a "+ Add Content Root" button at the top of the right panel. You can choose an arbitrary folder from that dialog, and then that folder will show up in the project folder tree on the same level as the primary module root folder (as a sibling).
I am using IDEA v.13.
-Stewart

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George Smith

2014-04-25 00:55:13 UTC

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Stewart is correct.

Unlike Eclipse, in IntelliJ there is technically no relationship between
where the project is "homed" and the modules are homes. And there is also
no hard relationship between where the module is homed and any of its parts.

That being said, IntelliJ assumes that most of us will use sub-directories
for this things, and it helps set things up that way by default, but these
can be changed, augmented or even skipped as part of the setup and then you
can manually configure your initial layout.

George

Post by Stewart Buskirk
Jason,
When you edit the module settings, there is a Sources tab. Mine has a "+
Add Content Root" button at the top of the right panel. You can choose an
arbitrary folder from that dialog, and then that folder will show up in the
project folder tree on the same level as the primary module root folder (as
a sibling).
I am using IDEA v.13.
-Stewart

Post by Jason Osgood
One feature of Eclipse that I miss terribly in IntelliJ is the Linked

Folder. It allows me to âincludeâ a projectâs logs, config, data files in
the Eclipse project navigator without actually including them within the
projectâs source tree.

Post by Jason Osgood
Has anyone found a workaround for IntelliJ?
I tried creating OS symlinks. IntelliJ doesnât honor them.
Forgive me; I think I asked this before. I donât recall the hivemindâs

answer.

Post by Jason Osgood
Cheers, Jason
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P.Hill

2014-04-25 17:58:37 UTC

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AFAIK, the same thing is possible and not uncommon in Eclipse.
As in IntelliJ, there are assumed simple defaults when all of it is
together and in the tree below, but it can be set otherwise.

Some dev groups keep IDE files (.project, .classpath ...) out of source
control by not having them in tree at all, instead of listing them in
the .gitignore (or equivalent).
I think that is even an option on the create dialogs for a simple project.

As Jason said, you can build (non-OS) soft links understood by the IDE
project, plus you can designate anything as a source directory. What
dir to build into and others can also be set. Consider your standard
Maven tree {$home}/src/main/java vs. a simple project with {$Home}/src.
It would be hard to support the fancier structure withouyt some of these
features.

No, this isn't a discussion of which IDE has a better UI for setting or
resetting these, only whether dirs can be linked and sources etc. can
refer to non-trivial locations.

Using an OS soft-link might trick an IDE, but it might also trick source
control, or even complicate some build process. I'm thinking that if you
want a dir is in the IDE just for convenient viewing (run results, logs
etc.), the right place to add a link is in the IDE, not anywhere else.

I once so regularly wanted to reference lots of stuff on a server, I had
a separate project for all those places which I also had open. It was a
short lived idea. My life got simpler.

-Paul

Post by George Smith
Stewart is correct.
Unlike Eclipse, in IntelliJ there is technically no relationship
between where the project is "homed" and the modules are homes. And
there is also no hard relationship between where the module is homed
and any of its parts.
That being said, IntelliJ assumes that most of us will use
sub-directories for this things, and it helps set things up that way
by default, but these can be changed, augmented or even skipped as
part of the setup and then you can manually configure your initial layout.