Exclude folder in intellij idea using Maven

Question

We are using maven to manage our idea projects but I\'m having a problem excluding a directory from the idea project.

Using idea, I would just go to Project Settings

Answer 1

I just did a small test and, with the following snippet:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-idea-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    <exclude>test-output,.clover,logs</exclude>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

The generated .iml file contains the following entries:

  <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/.clover"/>
  <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/logs"/>
  <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target"/>
  <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/test-output"/>

Which is to my knowledge the expected result.

Do you get something different? Are you expecting somehting else?