Re: Managing your notebooks
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg118045] Re: Managing your notebooks
- From: Brad Rubin <bsrubin at stthomas.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:59:33 -0400 (EDT)
Jason, I use Wolfram Workbench and the source code management feature that leverages the Subversion tool. This allows me to commit changes to notebooks while adding a brief comment about that committed version. I can then reload any previous version, using the brief comment to help me find the version I am looking for. However, I find that I rarely do go back, so it is more of an insurance policy against making a change and then later regretting it. If you find that you frequently go back to other versions, this might be too cumbersome for you. -- Brad Rubin On Apr 9, 2011, at 6:10 AM, Jason Quinn wrote: > I was curious if anybody would be willing to share there strategy for > managing their Mathematica notebook versions. > > In my experience, Mathematica notebooks are "fragile" because running > the code is not cleanly separated from using the code. Notebooks > indicate modification after a cell is run even if no changes to the > code were made. In practice, after using a notebook for a while, it's > easy to forget if changes were actually made that you would want to > keep, so when you are prompted to save a notebook, you are left with a > dilemma. Staying safe, you save again and again which leads to a > proliferation of versions. > > I am aware you can make cells edit protected but this doesn't solve > the problem. I also know about the "Notebook history" feature, which > seems to be of very limited value. I always end up with so many > "versions" of my notebooks that I forget what the differences between > them are. > > I can't help but feel that I'm missing something. I have no problems > managing compiled code or interpreted scripts but notebooks are much > more challenging. Is this something you experience as well. Have you > too noticed extra difficulty managing your mathematica notebooks? > > Comments? Suggestions? > Jason >