[IPython-dev] nbexplode - experiment in version controlling notebooks

[Brian Granger]

Ooohhh, very cool! Thanks for working on this!

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've just completed a rough prototype of a concept we've been calling
> 'nbexplode'. If you've wrestled with merge conflicts in notebooks kept in
> text-based VCSs, you might like to investigate it.
>
> https://github.com/takluyver/nbexplode/
>
> Since current VCSs don't understand any structure within a file (beyond
> lines), the idea is to let the VCS know about the structure of a notebook
> by breaking it up into many files for separate cells and outputs. The VCS
> should then be smarter about merging separate changes. When you check out
> an exploded notebook, you can recombine it into a single .ipynb file to
> work with.
>
> This is still sub-optimal, because filesystems (and therefore VCSs) have
> no notion of an ordered sequence. And it's probably more unwieldy for
> viewing diffs, because cells appear out of order.
>
> Thomas
>
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