I had a lot of trouble getting sbt-idea to work in my Scala 2.10 project.
I tried compiling sbt-idea from its git repo, making sure that to have set
scalaVersion := "2.10.0-RC5"
in build/Build.scala, and using publish-local command to compile it in git. But I nevertheless keep getting
[error] sbt.IncompatiblePluginsException: Binary incompatibility in plugins detected.
when I then use that in my published version, say by simply adding
addSbtPlugin("com.github.mpeltonen" % "sbt-idea" % "1.3.0-SNAPSHOT")
to the project/plugins.sbt file.