plusGitRepo

This extensions adds a pop-up interface to the existing nbgitpuller (https://github.com/jupyterhub/nbgitpuller) extension.

nbgitpuller lets you distribute content in a git repository to your students by having them use a simple link. nbgitpuller's Automatic merging ensures that your students are never exposed to git directly.

Installing

You need to install this package, and it will install nbgitpuller as a dependency

You need to enable both nbgitpuller and this package:

git clone --single-branch --depth 1 https://github.edina.ac.uk/edina/repoGitPlus
pip install -q ./repoGitPlus
jupyter serverextension enable --py nbgitpuller --sys-prefix
jupyter nbextension enable --py plusGitRepo

Using

The extension adds a button to the Notebook Toolbar:

Clicking on the +GitRepo button opens a popup to enter the git URL (and branch) to pull down:

Note that the URL is the web address of the repository, the one you would use to look at the data online, not the git address: https://github.com/GSA/data not https://github.com/GSA/data.git

+GitRepo will clone the default branch.

Clicking Clone will download the reposiory, and change you into that directory.

Optional parameters

From mid-2020, GitHub switched from master to using main as the default name for the central branch in repositories. If you need a specific branch, you can specify it.

If you need to access an authentincated repository, then you can supply an appropriate username & password.

Notes

• +GitRepo will always clone a repo into a folder off the users home directory - so even if you are in the folder of one repo, and use the interface to call another one, +GitRepo will clone that repo into it's own folder, and change you into that folder.

• See the link at the top of the page for details on nbgitpuller's automatic merging rules.

• We have included a Dockerfile for you to try the extension:

docker build -t test .
docker run -it --rm -p 8888:8888 test