<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">It seems like a reasonable practice to me. While you are at it, think about getting rid of those absolute data file pathnames by adding appropriate symbolic links to a central data directory, then you can move the whole tree about.<div><br></div><div>regards</div><div> Steve</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 18, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Mark Voorhies <<a href="mailto:mark.voorhies@ucsf.edu">mark.voorhies@ucsf.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I'm finally moving from one big git-controlled notebook directory to a more organized tree structure.<br>Frequently, I have notebooks that could be classified in more than one subdirectory; e.g., a PCA<br>analysis of an expression profiling experiment might make sense in both the subdirectory for that<br>experiment as well as a subdirectory of PCA analyses. Assuming the IPython working directory is<br>not relevant (e.g., the notebook refers to all data by absolute path), are there any pros/cons<br>(with respect to git and/or IPython) to solving this problem by either symlinking or hard linking<br>such notebooks to additional subdirectories? (Or has anyone come up with a cleaner solution to<br>this problem?)<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Mark<br>_______________________________________________<br>IPython-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:IPython-dev@scipy.org">IPython-dev@scipy.org</a><br>http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/ipython-dev<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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