'if' statement with identical branches or common parts

Reports if statements in which common parts can be extracted from the branches.

These common parts are independent from the condition and make if statements harder to understand.

Example:

  if (x > 12) {
    doSomethingBefore();
    doSomethingDifferent1();
    doSomethingAfter();
  } else {
    doSomethingBefore();
    doSomethingDifferent2();
    doSomethingAfter();
  }

After the quick-fix is applied:

  doSomethingBefore();
  if (x > 12) {
    doSomethingDifferent1();
  } else {
    doSomethingDifferent2();
  }
  doSomethingAfter();

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

IfStatementWithIdenticalBranches

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Control flow issues

Updated in 2018.1

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the 'if' statement with identical branches or common parts inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Highlight when the last common statement is a call: Default value:
Not selected
Highlight else-if chains that can be simplified: Default value:
Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection IfStatementWithIdenticalBranches

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025