Re: Managing your notebooks
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- Subject: [mg118064] Re: Managing your notebooks
- From: ADL <alberto.dilullo at tiscali.it>
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:06:12 -0400 (EDT)
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On 9 Apr, 13:11, Jason Quinn <jason.lee.qu... at gmail.com> 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 For versioning .m files, I easily developed a GET function (similar to the Get one), which operates like this: GET[file] looks for any file (in my paths) of the form "file-nnn.m", where the n are numbers, and loads the one with the highest number. In this way, while saving my file versions, I simply add a progressive number to the file and I'm sure to automatically load (or reload) only the last one. If I am not happy, I delete the last and get automatically back to the previous. The same concept may be used to change directory. ADL