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IntelliJ IDEA has plugins to support various Version Control Systems. Some, however, are only available in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, and until now, Perforce Helix Core integration was among them. Starting with 2021.1, the Perforce Helix Core plugin is open-source and compatible with IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition, though it is not bundled. The plugin can be installed from the marketplace: https://p

As part of the previously announced effort, in IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3, we are deprecating CVS Integration. The CVS Integration plugin is not bundled with the IDE since 2019.1 but is still available in the plugin repository. The sources are also available in the common repository, so it is possible to submit pull requests with fixes and improvements, and if there are PRs, we will release an update of

As we announced some time ago, we are discontinuing support for ClearCase and Visual SourceSafe as of the 2017.3 release. This implies several things: Visual SourceSafe Integration plugin has being unbundled for some time already and starting from the latest EAP, ClearCase plugin is also removed from the standard package. Since we do not plan any further development of the plugins, we wil

We've just published a new IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 EAP build, in which you'll find some quite interesting new features. (more…)

In this week's Git video, Gary and I look at how you can Annotate your code to see who made which changes.  We also show how you can use this information to understand a bit more about the context of a particular change.

In this week's Git questions we take a look at a simple but rather important step when you're working on a GitHub Open Source project - how do you get started? In the video, Gary and I demonstrate how to fork and clone a project (I chose some Spring example code and Gary chose a JavaScript framework) and how to set up additional remotes so that you can easily keep your fork up-to-date as per ou

Carrying on our series of Git Questions, this week Gary Hockin (PhpStorm Advocate) and I look at the question: how do I make sure my GitHub fork is up to date when the open source project it forked has moved on? GitHub's help does, of course, cover this question. But not everyone is comfortable working from the command line, and even those who are, sometimes prefer to use the IDE if they're alr

We regularly get questions about how to achieve a particular thing - as developers there are parts of our workflow which trip us up, that our tools can help us with if we understand how.  So we've decided to start answering these real world questions with videos showing what to do. The first video features me, Trisha Gee (Developer Advocate for IntelliJ IDEA) and Gary Hockin (Developer Advocate

In one of her recent articles, Trisha Gee wrote about refactoring to Java 8. Among many great tips about Java 8, the article also showed how IntelliJ IDEA helps write correct and idiomatic Java 8. With IntelliJ IDEA 2016.3, we've gone further and extended our existing inspections to support non-trivial cases. (more…)

As you may know in IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 EAP we've finally fixed a very annoying issue that didn't allow to commit case-only renames in IntelliJ IDEA. For a number of reasons, the solution was not so trivial, we decided to share some of its implementation details with you. When you are on a case-sensitive file system (Linux), case-only renames are just like any other renames, so you're all good.

A fresh IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 EAP build is out and ready to test. Besides usual bugfixes it brings improvements to the Git/Mercurial Log viewer. The Log viewer now loads in the background on every change (a commit, fetch, rebase, etc). As a result, it's always ready when you open it. Also, we've reworked the way we show the loading progress. Now, when refreshing, there's a thin stripe shown u

A fresh EAP build for IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 is out and, being a good EAP build that it is, has something new for you to try: General A new inspection that warns you when you instantiate new objects inside equals, hashCode, compareTo or Comparator.compare methods. This helps to avoid significant performance problems when, for example, objects of classes with such constructs are added to Set o

Great news, everyone! A fresh weekly IntelliJ IDEA 16 EAP is out and ready, packed with bugfixes and new features as usual. The noticeable changes affect the debugger, VCS integrations, and user interface. Debugger Now when debugging a Java application, you can use Groovy expressions with Evaluate Expression and Watches. Previously you could do that only when debugging Groovy code. This is g

Every week we publish a fresh IntelliJ IDEA 16 EAP. Today's build, among bugfixes that address issues you reported, brings a few improvements to Git integration and IntelliJ IDEA heart, the code editor. Move elements right and left We already have a way to move code statements up and down: Ctrl + Shift + Up/Down (Cmd + Shift + Up/Down for OS X.) They come in handy when you're rearranging cod

We don't stop improving IntelliJ IDEA even after a major release. The fresh IntelliJ IDEA 15.0.2 EAP build introduces a much easier way to access individual VCS tool window tabs (Local changes, Log and Shelf). Now, instead of opening this tool window via Alt + 9 (Cmd + 9 on OS X), and then using the mouse or Alt + Arrow (Ctrl + Arrow on OS X) to get to a tab you need, you can assign shortcuts t

To make the upcoming major release feature-rich, we keep adding new features almost every week. Force Early Return in Java Debugger The Java debugger in the new EAP build got a new action called Force Early Return. Now you can force the return from the current method without executing any more instructions from it: If the method returns a value, you'll have to specify it (smart code c

In the new IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP build released yesterday Perforce users may notice a new action in the Local Changes tab in the Version Control tool window: Now you can shelve your changes not only locally but also in Perforce, which might be more convenient and safe in some cases. When you invoke this action, IntelliJ IDEA will ask you to select files to shelve, and provide a description:

Those who use Groovy in their projects will be glad to know that the new IntelliJ IDEA 15 EAP build comes with the long-awaited support for the @Builder annotation, introduced in Groovy 2.3: The support includes code completion and quick navigation for all 4 strategies. Apart from that we've also added the Undo action support in the Merge dialog to make editing of the resulting code easi

As the release of IntelliJ IDEA 14.1 approaches really fast, we keep updating you on our progress by sharing EAP builds with you. This week is no exception: hurry to grab yet another fresh preview build with two noticeable improvements (among other changes). First and foremost, IntelliJ IDEA 14.1 gets the newest features from Android Studio 1.1. Another noticeable change is the feature you a

It's hard to imagine today's development process without the use of version control. Whether you work for a big company, or pursue your own hobby project, version control is essential for team collaboration and product delivery. That's why the today's article from our 30 Day Guide is about version control basics. IntelliJ IDEA supports the most popular version controls including Git, GitHub, Su