I'm working on a java based maven project where we check in and share the generated intellij configuration files to share common settings and run configurations. We have a few shared maven run configurations that execute various maven goals on maven modules. The issue I've seen is that on the configuration "Project" tab the "Project file" input doesn't behave the same way you might expect it to - such as when you specify the working directory of a shared "Application run" configuration. It does correctly remember the value you give it - but it's not remembering the path to the pom file relative to the project root folder....So after doing an svn update I sometimes have red x-ed broken maven configuration runs which have paths such as "C:\work\project\pom.xml" - which doesn't work for me on my filesystem because I don't use windows and even if I did wouldn't be guaranteed to have the same directory structure as the person who configured it does.