Methods for using Git with Google Colab

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Prashanth picture Prashanth · Jan 19, 2018 · Viewed 79.1k times · Source

Are there any recommended methods to integrate git with colab?

For example, is it possible to work off code from google source repositories or the likes?

Neither google drive nor cloud storage can be used for git functionality.

So I was wondering if there is a way to still do it?

Answer

Bob Smith picture Bob Smith · Jan 21, 2018

git is installed on the machine, and you can use ! to invoke shell commands.

For example, to clone a git repository:

!git clone https://github.com/fastai/courses.git

Here's a complete example that clones a repository and loads an Excel file stored therein. https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=1v-yZk-W4YXOxLTLi7bekDw2ZWZXWW216

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