Hey Nicolas, happy to see you liked the article. To clarify, I don’t use the built-in Settings Repository in IntelliJ. The article is not about that; it’s about keeping your project’s IDE settings under version control, lessons learned, etc.

When I say “keeping your project’s IDE settings under version control” I mean that you commit (part of) the .idea folder in your version control — which is most likely Git.

No third-party plugins, nothing external. You can see an example of in-use .gitignore following the article recommendations here:

squanchy-dev/squanchy-android

Hope this makes things clearer!