Prevent IntelliJ from adding iml files

Question

I\'m working with Maven pom files, and I don\'t wish to source control iml files. When I open a project, IntelliJ seems to add some of the iml files it creates to the SVN so

Answer 1

Elaborating on Colin Hebert answer. Yes, it is possible to move the iml file to another directory when importing from Maven. And this seem to be the only way to prevent this problem.

Here the settings to use in import:

Since all important informations are keep in Maven itself it only takes a little time to reimport an existing modules. The gain truly is worth it.