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nbdime is a tool for diffing and merging of Jupyter notebooks. Notice that nbdime integrates with git well.

Tips and Traps

If you install nbdime to your local directory, make sure that the directory containing executables (usually ~/.local/bin) is in $PATH so that it can be used without issues.

Installation and Configuration

You can use the following command to configure nbdime for Git.

nbdime config-git (--enable | --disable) [--global | --system]

Register nbdime with Git for the current project/repository.

nbdime config-git --enable

Deregister nbdime with Git for the current project/repository.

nbdime config-git --disable

Register nbdime with Git for global users.

nbdime config-git --enable --global

Deregister nbdime with Git for global users.

nbdime config-git --disable --global

If you are using xinstall, a simple way to install and configure nbdime is to run the following commandd.

xinstall nbdime -ic

Version Control Integration

nbdime config-git --enable --global

nbdime config-git --disable --global

References

nbdime

http://nbdime.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

http://nbdime.readthedocs.io/en/stable/vcs.html