diff --git a/services/git-bridge/.gitignore b/services/git-bridge/.gitignore
index e90f3aaf1a..aae52c24d4 100644
--- a/services/git-bridge/.gitignore
+++ b/services/git-bridge/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,45 @@
-target/
+# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio and Webstorm
+# Reference: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544839
+
+# User-specific stuff:
 .idea/workspace.xml
+.idea/tasks.xml
+.idea/dictionaries
+.idea/vcs.xml
+.idea/jsLibraryMappings.xml
+
+# Sensitive or high-churn files:
+.idea/dataSources.ids
+.idea/dataSources.xml
+.idea/dataSources.local.xml
+.idea/sqlDataSources.xml
+.idea/dynamic.xml
+.idea/uiDesigner.xml
+
+# Gradle:
+.idea/gradle.xml
+.idea/libraries
+
+# Mongo Explorer plugin:
+.idea/mongoSettings.xml
+
+## File-based project format:
+*.iws
+
+## Plugin-specific files:
+
+# IntelliJ
+/out/
+target/
+
+# mpeltonen/sbt-idea plugin
+.idea_modules/
+
+# JIRA plugin
+atlassian-ide-plugin.xml
+
+# Crashlytics plugin (for Android Studio and IntelliJ)
+com_crashlytics_export_strings.xml
+crashlytics.properties
+crashlytics-build.properties
+fabric.properties
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diff --git a/services/git-bridge/.idea/compiler.xml b/services/git-bridge/.idea/compiler.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ca4e0c0cae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/git-bridge/.idea/compiler.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="CompilerConfiguration">
+    <resourceExtensions />
+    <wildcardResourcePatterns>
+      <entry name="!?*.java" />
+      <entry name="!?*.form" />
+      <entry name="!?*.class" />
+      <entry name="!?*.groovy" />
+      <entry name="!?*.scala" />
+      <entry name="!?*.flex" />
+      <entry name="!?*.kt" />
+      <entry name="!?*.clj" />
+      <entry name="!?*.aj" />
+    </wildcardResourcePatterns>
+    <annotationProcessing>
+      <profile default="true" name="Default" enabled="false">
+        <processorPath useClasspath="true" />
+      </profile>
+      <profile default="false" name="Maven default annotation processors profile" enabled="true">
+        <sourceOutputDir name="target/generated-sources/annotations" />
+        <sourceTestOutputDir name="target/generated-test-sources/test-annotations" />
+        <outputRelativeToContentRoot value="true" />
+        <processorPath useClasspath="true" />
+        <module name="writelatex-git-bridge" />
+      </profile>
+    </annotationProcessing>
+    <bytecodeTargetLevel>
+      <module name="writelatex-git-bridge" target="1.7" />
+    </bytecodeTargetLevel>
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/services/git-bridge/.idea/copyright/profiles_settings.xml b/services/git-bridge/.idea/copyright/profiles_settings.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e7bedf3377
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/git-bridge/.idea/copyright/profiles_settings.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<component name="CopyrightManager">
+  <settings default="" />
+</component>
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diff --git a/services/git-bridge/.idea/encodings.xml b/services/git-bridge/.idea/encodings.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b26911bd02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/git-bridge/.idea/encodings.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="Encoding">
+    <file url="file://$PROJECT_DIR$" charset="UTF-8" />
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/services/git-bridge/.idea/misc.xml b/services/git-bridge/.idea/misc.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e04d97a9fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/git-bridge/.idea/misc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="EntryPointsManager">
+    <entry_points version="2.0" />
+  </component>
+  <component name="MavenProjectsManager">
+    <option name="originalFiles">
+      <list>
+        <option value="$PROJECT_DIR$/pom.xml" />
+      </list>
+    </option>
+  </component>
+  <component name="ProjectRootManager" version="2" languageLevel="JDK_1_8" default="false" assert-keyword="true" jdk-15="true" project-jdk-name="1.8" project-jdk-type="JavaSDK" />
+</project>
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diff --git a/services/git-bridge/.idea/modules.xml b/services/git-bridge/.idea/modules.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4cebdcf6c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/git-bridge/.idea/modules.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="ProjectModuleManager">
+    <modules>
+      <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/writelatex-git-bridge.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/writelatex-git-bridge.iml" />
+    </modules>
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/services/git-bridge/writelatex-git-bridge.iml b/services/git-bridge/writelatex-git-bridge.iml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a95c551acc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/git-bridge/writelatex-git-bridge.iml
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<module org.jetbrains.idea.maven.project.MavenProjectsManager.isMavenModule="true" type="JAVA_MODULE" version="4">
+  <component name="NewModuleRootManager" LANGUAGE_LEVEL="JDK_1_7" inherit-compiler-output="false">
+    <output url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target/classes" />
+    <output-test url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target/test-classes" />
+    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$">
+      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/main/java" isTestSource="false" />
+      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/test/java" isTestSource="true" />
+      <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/test/resources" type="java-test-resource" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/target" />
+    </content>
+    <orderEntry type="jdk" jdkName="1.8" jdkType="JavaSDK" />
+    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: junit:junit:4.12" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:1.3" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: org.jmock:jmock-junit4:2.6.0" level="project" />
+    <orderEntry type="library" scope="TEST" name="Maven: org.jmock:jmock:2.6.0" level="project" />
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+</module>
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