Re-setting DEPLOY_AFTER_MAKE option in Intelli-J

Intelli-J IDEA (my Java IDE of choice) has a bug where you can’t re-set the “deploy after make” setting if you answer “yes” in the dialog when it asks if you want to redeploy your app, and check the box telling it not to ask you again.

This is a very important setting since redeploying your app every time you make a change is NOT what you want most of the time during web development, and they need to expose it somewhere in the UI.

The only way I’ve been able to change it later is to edit the top-level .ipr file in a text editor and change the DEPLOY_AFTER_MAKE setting, like so:


Logging it here for posterity.

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