Methods for using Git with Google Colab

Question

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?

Nei

Answer 1

This works if you want to share your repo and colab. Also works if you have multiple repos. Just throw it in a cell.

import ipywidgets as widgets
from IPython.display import display
import subprocess

class credentials_input():
    def __init__(self, repo_name):
        self.repo_name = repo_name
        self.username = widgets.Text(description='Username', value='')
        self.pwd = widgets.Password(description = 'Password', placeholder='password here')

        self.username.on_submit(self.handle_submit_username)
        self.pwd.on_submit(self.handle_submit_pwd)        
        display(self.username)

    def handle_submit_username(self, text):
        display(self.pwd)
        return

    def handle_submit_pwd(self, text):
        cmd = f'git clone https://{self.username.value}:{self.pwd.value}@{self.repo_name}'
        process = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
        output, error = process.communicate()
        print(output, error)
        self.username.value, self.pwd.value = '', ''

get_creds = credentials_input('github.com/username/reponame.git')
get_creds