Our version control uses a monorepo, with non-branching workflows, development against the head version, and frequent commits/pushes to production.

For Jupyter notebooks, cell results get emptied before saving, unless declared public. That is to ensure data confidentiality, not really to help version control.

Of course, standard diff gets confused with ipynbs. You need a tool like nbdime (notebook diff and merge).

Thanks for sharing nbdime! Been looking for something like this for a while.

Not OP, but I can recommend the handy https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout which acts as a git filter which makes version control ignore cell outputs.

With that approach, though notebooks are clean they're still fairly poor for easily evaluating diffs between versions. If code review / diffs are more important than preserving the notebook, then you could use a post save hook to convert notebook input to a .py file and output to .html:

https://towardsdatascience.com/version-control-for-jupyter-n...