2009/12/3 tmb <[email protected]>:
> I have created a pretty large number of worksheets over the last year
> for courses in pattern recognition and image processing.
>
> Unfortunately, I keep having problems with sage versioning.  For
> example, I had renamed worksheets to have a more consistent naming
> structure, but many of the new names actually have reverted suddenly.
> Within individual worksheets, I find that sometimes there are remnants
> of output left from previous expressions that have been deleted.  I've
> also had problems with the notebook seemingly "getting out of sync"
> and text randomly appearing or disappearing occasionally.  This is
> with up-to-date versions of Sage running on the latest Ubuntu 9.10,
> and recent versions of Firefox.
>
> I'm kind of losing trust in the Sage notebook and the Sage server.  It
> seems like my notebooks are always at risk.  I've dealt with buggy
> software before, but what's so frustrating about Sage is that there is
> nothing I can really do to back things up or version them.  Even
> downloading all the notebooks as a zip file fails with some frequency
> and takes forever even if it works, and now I can't even upload the
> manual backups I created.
>
> Is there any light at the end of the tunnel?  Are there any new
> facilities on the horizon for versioning and copying notebooks?
>
> One thing that would help a great deal is if notebooks were actually
> stored in a Mercurial repository and versioned using Mercurial.  That
> way, I could pull/backup copies directly, synchronize Sage
> installations, and have a much more reliable record of the history of
> the collection of notebooks.
>

You can put the .sage/sage_notebook.sagenb/home/ directory under
revision control.   You should probably only hg add the worksheet.html
and worksheet_conf.pickle files, and ignore everything else.

 -- William

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