[Design question] Why not simply git clone the repositories? about jupyterlab-github HOT 4 CLOSED

You might just want to browse a particular notebook?
If you want to clone an entire repo, why not just use jupyterlab-git?

It would be nice for this extension to be have a clone button, the implementation of which could be delegated to the jupyterlab-git extension.

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You might just want to browse a particular notebook?

ah, makes sense. So any edits made to notebooks under this plugin are not persisted anywhere? Not even locally on the disk?

If you want to clone an entire repo, why not just use jupyterlab-git?

Yeah that's a good idea. We wanted to preload the jupyter instance with user's GitLab repositories but that can be done without an extension (as a postStart lifecycle hook after spawning from JupyterHub). We'll just have to set the access_tokens properly.

Thanks!

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@amit1rrr Sorry for not responding to this sooner, I've been looking through the work you did on setting up the GitLab JupyterHub deployment with this stuff, and I'm impressed! I've started to do some simliar things in a JupyterHub deployment: https://github.com/CityOfLosAngeles/citywide-jupyterhub/blob/e010e49cf02ef42c4c9a237b6e9bc33d6a344288/deploy/config.yaml#L18-L42

But to reiterated what @dhirschfeld said, this extension is mostly oriented around browsing remote repositories, and is explicitly not about making edits, commits, or any version-control operations. That said, a clone button would be nice.

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Thanks @ian-r-rose. We ended up using the jupyterlab-git extension for GitLab setup. Works very well.

Your work looks very interesting as well. Do you actually plan to have a public citywide JupyterHub deployment? If yes, that's very interesting and I'm really curious so I'll throw a few questions out there,

• How do you plan to tackle abuse (e.g. mining crypto)?
• Who is paying for the underlying compute infrastructure?

https://github.com/CityOfLosAngeles/citywide-jupyterhub/blob/e010e49cf02ef42c4c9a237b6e9bc33d6a344288/deploy/config.yaml#L18-L42

By the way, @minrk helped a lot to get this setup going for us :)

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