How do I enable annotation in Intellij?

Question

I have an intellij project which is not showing the Git annotations options 1 . How do I enable git annotations ? The project indeed has a git directory, however, that directory is nested underneath the main project folder.

ie

project/ some_folders/ code/ .git

Hence its not there by default.

IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1.2 Build #IC-145.971, built on April 29, 2016 JRE: 1.8.0_76-release-b162 x86_64 JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains sro

Answer 1

Try adding a new VCS directory mapping manually (from here ):

Associating a directory with a version control system

To associate a directory with a version control system, follow these steps:

Open version control settings (File | Settings | Version Control). This page shows a list of project directories and version control systems associated with them (if no directories have been added, the list only contains the project root). Click the Add button on the right. In the Add VCS Directory Mapping dialog box that opens, select the Directory option. Type the path to the directory that you want to associate with a version control system, or click the Browse button and select the directory in the dialog that opens. From the VCS drop-down list, select the version control system that will be used to control the files in this directory. Note that this list only contains the version control systems for which the corresponding Plugins are currently enabled (see Managing Plugins for details). Optionally, click the Configure VCS button that allows you to specify the settings for the selected version control system. The same settings are also available under the Version Control settings node. Click OK to save the mapping and return to the Version Control page.