While there are clear benefits, it's not always the right approach. Here are some considerations:
- If projects are truly independent, having them in separate repositories ensures they can evolve independently without being tied to the history, tags, or branches of other projects.
- The Git history might become cluttered with unrelated changes from other projects, making it harder to focus on the history of a specific project.
- Setting up CI/CD pipelines can become more complex as you need to ensure pipelines are scoped correctly for individual projects.
- If certain projects should have restricted access, a single repository might complicate permission management.
- As the repository grows with more projects, it might become large and slow to clone or fetch, especially for contributors only interested in a subset of the projects.
- If the projects are independent but managed in one Git repository, it's best to add each project as a module in IntelliJ.
- If IntelliJ prompts to auto-detect them as Maven or Gradle projects, you can accept and configure them individually.
- Use separate IntelliJ projects only if the projects are entirely unrelated and don’t need to be worked on together.