Re: Minimizing Mathematica file size for source code control?
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- Subject: [mg83278] Re: Minimizing Mathematica file size for source code control?
- From: Albert <awnl at arcor.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:42:27 -0500 (EST)
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Gordon Robertson wrote: > I'm relatively new to Mathematica v6. I want to start to commit > notebooks to an SVN source code repository. Many of my notebooks > contain imported files and plots generated from the files; such > notebooks are often larger than 20MB. > > Because I will/can regenerate data imports and plots when I next run the > notebook, it should be possible to routinely reduce the file size by > removing these data from the notebook, so that notebooks can be comfortably > submitted to source control. > > Could I ask more experienced Mathematica users for comments on how to address SCC? A simple way to get rid of most of the recalculable large output is by using the 'Cell' -> 'Delete All Output' menu-entry. I use it all the time and while a little inconvenient it is good enough to reduce notebooks to a size easily handled by subversion. There is also a perl script that was originally written for an older mathematica version and rcs/cvs which does clean up image-caches and other things and can be run on the server side. It would need some understanding of how to install checkin-scripts on svn to get it run with svn but should not be terrible complicated. I don't know if that script is still maintained and whether there are problems with v6 and have no experience on how reliable this works. Here is a link to it's website: http://www.itwm.fhg.de/as/asemployees/wichmann/nbcache.html hth, albert