Project specific maven settings in IntelliJ

The company I’m working for has its specific maven settings file (settings.xml), which defines the repository, some profiles and so on. For a project on customer side I wanted to have another settings file in place without changing or extending the existing one.

By default IntelliJ 14 takes the user settings file under C:\Users{user}.m2\settings.xml. This can be manually overridden per project:

1. Go to settings (Strg + Alt + s)
2. Navigate to Build, Execution, Deployment > Build tools -> Maven (or search for Maven)
3. Select the override checkbox on the line of user settings file and refer the project specific settings.xml-file