IntelliJ IDEA: How to import Copyright settings?

Question

The team obviously needs to have the same code style, inspections and copyright settings in the IDE. Although I don't see how copyright settings could be imported into a file and then shared in the team. Is there any way to import copyright settings the similar way we import code style settings?

Answer 1

If you go to Settings > File Templates, you can configure each file to contain a copyright notice in its header. You can also configure such notices for inner classes, etc, in Settings > Live Templates (create a macro that your team is trained to use when creating an inner class). Both file templates and live templates can be exported/imported as settings.

Answer 2

Take a look at this Intellij FAQ about committing the .idea folder into the repository.

The copyright settings (made, as you noted, via File -> Settings -> Copyright) are Project Level settings and are accordingly stored in the .idea/copyright folder. If you were to check-in that folder (or the whole .idea folder with the exceptions noted in the FAQ), then it would be available to the team.