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The Jupyter+git problem is now solved · fast.ai

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Jupyter notebooks don’t work with git by default. With nbdev2, the Jupyter+git problem has been totally solved. It provides a set of hooks which provide clean git diffs, solve most git conflicts automatically, and ensure that any remaining conflicts can be resolved entirely within the standard Jupyter notebook environment. To get started, follow the directions on Git-friendly Jupyter. Jupyter notebooks are a powerful tool for scientists, engineers, technical writers, students, teachers, and more. They provide an ideal notebook environment for interactively exploring data and code, writing programs, and documenting the results as dashboards, books, or blogs. But when collaborating with others, this ideal environment goes up in smoke. That’s because tools such as git, which are the most popular approaches for asynchronous collaboration, makes notebooks unusable. Literally. Here’s what it looks like if you and a colleague both modify a notebook cell (including, in many cases, simply execu

Jupyter notebooks don’t work with git by default. With nbdev2, the Jupyter+git problem has been totally solved. It provides a set of hooks which provide clean git diffs, solve most git conflicts automatically, and ensure that any remaining conflicts can be resolved entirely within the standard Jupyter notebook environment. To get started, follow the directions on Git-friendly Jupyter. The Jupyter+git problem Jupyter notebooks are a powerful tool for scientists, engineers, technical writers, students, teachers, and more. They provide an ideal notebook environment for interactively exploring…

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