jupyterlab-gitplus VS nbstripout

If you are in need of a diff tool for jupter notebooks use https://www.reviewnb.com/ and for word documents use https://www.simuldocs.com/

- GitHub PR code reviews with ReviewNB[4]

Alternatively, if you don't care about cell outputs then Jupytext[5]

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[1] https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-git

Already a GitHub plugin that does this very nicely: ReviewNB

For version control: https://www.reviewnb.com/ helps. Agree with the rest but some experimental notebooks are useful to track/version control.

It's not focused on collaboration, but it does add some critical pieces that otherwise make Jupyter development frustrating when working with a team. Specifically: `nbdev_prepare` ensures that diffs are as small as possible, by removing and standardising notebook metadata; and `nbdev_fix` fixes merge conflicts so that they are cell-level, rather than line level, so they can be opened and fixed in notebooks.

Something else we've found helpful for collaboration (not associated - just happy users) is this: https://www.reviewnb.com/ . It means we can get a nice notebook-based PR workflow.

Real-time collaboration is available in Jupyter nowadays: https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/rtc.html . nbdev doesn't have any extra functionality for it, however -- but it should work fine in this environment.

If you'd like to automatically remove empty / tagged cells or retroactively apply this filter to your git history, you can read the nbstripout documentation on GitHub.

I used something as a precommit hook in the past that remove plots and other rendered content and only kept text and code in git index. I'm almost sure it was https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout but it's been a while and I could be wrong.

Once the hook was in place git diff worked well enough to not need any other diffing tool.

As far as versioning, I use nbstripout (notebook strip out) I think there are alternatives too.

You can use it with source control, I do it for about 18 notebooks I use on a daily basis:

https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout