How to pull and push notebooks to github from google cloud datalab?

Question

I'd like to setup google cloud datalab to read my notebooks from a github repo and push them back there as I make changes.

I was able to setup a cloud repo that mirrored my github project but when using ungit in datalab to push changes, it said that connected cloud repos are read-only.

How have others set this up?

Answer 1

This works even with two-factor auth and doesn't involve fighting with a web user interface.

• ssh into the Datalab VM. You can do this from the Google web console by going to Compute Engine | Instances and clicking on the ssh button
• Your notebooks are on the persistent disks on this VM (/mnt/disks/datalab-pd/content/datalab/notebooks), so cd to that directory and git clone the repository to this place.
• (optional) Set up password-less git following the steps in https://help.github.com/articles/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/
• Work with your notebooks in Datalab (/mnt/disks/datalab-pd/content is mapped to the home directory in Datalab)
• To commit, go back to the ssh window and use git from the command-line from there.