How to stop Intellij from creating src/main/java and src/main/scala-x folders?

15
votes

I have a SBT project in Intellij 15.0.2 for scala only programming.

For some reason, the project keeps creating the following folders in my project:

  • src/main/java
  • src/main/scala-2.10
  • src/main/scala-2.11
  • src/test/java
  • src/test/scala-2.10
  • src/test/scala-2.11

I have attempted to remove them by unchecking them as "Sources" or "Tests" in my Project Structure and then deleting the folders. But they are immediately re-created by Intellij ...

1
scalaintellij-ideasbt
Vesion of Intellij and Scala plugin please? Can you share build.sbt? – Teliatko
I updated the post with the Build.scala and version. Intellij version: 15.0.2 – Upio

1 Answers

19
votes

You can disable this while creating/importing sbt project (there is a suitable checkbox).

If project is already created, you can go to

Settings |> Build, Execution, Deployment |> Build Tools |> SBT

and uncheck Create directores for empty content roots automatically

This option is kind of usefull if you are starting a new project as it will create directories for you, but after this I suggest to disable this option and keep only directories you want, otherways directories will be generated each time you build/refresh project.

See picture:

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Edit

Seems like this option disappeared from Idea interface. If you have an old project and it is enabled there, go to .idea/sbt.xml and get rid of 

<option name="createEmptyContentRootDirectories" value="true" />