After reading this chapter, you know how to set up version control, get the project from the repository, commit your work, and get the changes made by other members of your team. Version control in IntelliJ IDEA is tightly integrated into the IDE. All the versioning activities can be executed from the IDE itself—you will not need to use an external tool for this. I believe it will shortly become natural for you to use the provided functionalities. Not being distracted by the use of external tools will result in higher effectiveness.

The last few chapters we focused on the IDE workspace itself, installing plugins, and using the editor, debugger, and version control. This should be enough to get you going. The IDE is very extensible; the list of available plugins is growing constantly. However, if this is not enough, you can create the plugin you need by using the provided plugin API. We will cover this in the next chapter.