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  • You would clone your repository. I'm not clear on what the question/concern is? Yes, you'll have a lot more metadata than you would need in your IDE (and that's ok). Your metadata subscription in illuminated Cloud doesn't have to have everything in your source control. It's just to make life easy to retrieve/deploy against your connected salesforce org and can change to accommodate the classes/metadata you're working on as you go. Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 3:57
  • @KrisGoncalves My concern is if I make changes to metadata types through the UI and they're not in the subscription, then they won't come through to the local branch. I guess...if I just change the metadata subscription to "All", but add the directories corresponding to types not in source control to my gitignore...then that should work? Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 4:14
  • Any reason why you're avoiding SFDX? Commented Jun 1, 2020 at 11:33
  • @BrianMiller This is a stepping stone towards SFDX. My team is a mix of admins & devs, and the devs among us have mainly just been Salesforce devs, so a lot of the more generic development processes/tooling is not as familiar. This gets us used to git concepts & CI to start with. Commented Jun 2, 2020 at 1:16
  • That makes sense Mike. We had a very similar team and "made the plunge" about a year ago, and we have Bitbucket repos linked to VS Code and our sfdx projects (replacing Sublime Text & MavensMate). It's actually been working very smoothly for us. When starting to learn SFDX for the first time, I highly suggest leaving out scratch orgs and just sticking to force:source:deploy and retrieve for normal org development. It's pretty lightweight and smooth starting with this, then you can jump into the complexity of scratch orgs. Bitbucket also has Pipelines for CI/CD capabilities as well Commented Jun 2, 2020 at 12:14