How to disable IntelliJ IDEA version control by default?

Question

Every single time I create a new project in IntelliJ IDEA it sets its version control system to Subversion. It's kind of annoying to disable it manually every time. How do I disable it for good, so that the default option for version control is "none"?

Answer 1

There is no setting which disables version control by default for new projects but we can disable the Subversion (or Git or Mercurial or ...) plugin generally.

To do that:

1. Go to File/Settings/Plugins
2. Choose tab Installed
3. Look for the Subversion plugin, disable it by removing the tick and clicking "Apply":

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Optional:

Disable Git version control:

• untick Git Integration (this will disable Github and Google Cloud Tools Core , Google Cloud Tools For Android Studio too)

Disable Mercurial version control:

• untick Mercurial Integration

Answer 2

Do you use Maven by chance? There is an issue with VCS detection for maven projects. See https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-115100