I believe you are doing it wrong. I do not version control my IntelliJ project files, at least with Maven you don't need them in your VCS, if, and only IF I ne

I believe you are doing it wrong. I do not version control my IntelliJ project files, at least with Maven you don't need them in your VCS, if, and only IF I need to checkout a new copy into another computer I just re-create the project from the pom files. and I believe same may be true with Gradle, lets be realistic how often you change computers that you need to keep your project files with you?