IntelliJ: Maven projects need to be imported: Import Changes Enable Auto-Import

Question

upon creating a new maven project I get the popup box saying

     \"Maven projects need to be imported: Import Changes Enable Auto-Import\"

The

Answer 1

Select this check box, if you want IntelliJ IDEA to perform reimport automatically each time you change your pom.xml.

From the documentation.

In other words it just automatically updates project details upon POM change. Generally it tells IDEA that, for example, dependencies for those new external classes you started using in your code can be found in updated version of POM.

Here is some information about it as well.