Actually, existing approach works pretty well...

README.md

@@ -187,6 +187,8 @@ For a concrete example, look at this link to [the recent revamped Reptile code f
 is in the MetaLearning folder of this repo.
 
 
+
+
 #### Git-friendly iPython Notebooks
 
 Using the code from : http://pascalbugnion.net/blog/ipython-notebooks-and-git.html (and
@@ -226,6 +228,18 @@ simply add to its metadata (Edit-Metadata) as a first-level entry (``true`` is t
   "git" : { "suppress_outputs" : false },
 ```
 
+#### Git-friendly iPython Notebooks (Looks promising, but...)
+
+[nbstripout](https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout) seems to do what we want, and can be installed more easily.
+
+Within the local python environment (or do this globally, as root, if you're committed) :
+
+```
+pip install nbstripout
+````
+
+
+
 
 ### Useful resources
 

bin/ipynb_optional_output_filter.py

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 
 json_in = json.loads(nb)
 nb_metadata = json_in["metadata"]
-suppress_output = True
+suppress_output = True  # This is the default value - i.e. clean outputs by default
 if "git" in nb_metadata:
     if "suppress_outputs" in nb_metadata["git"]:
         suppress_output = nb_metadata["git"]["suppress_outputs"]
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ def strip_output_from_cell(cell):
         cell["outputs"] = []
     if "prompt_number" in cell:
         del cell["prompt_number"]
+    if "execution_count" in cell:
+        cell["execution_count"]=None  # Translates to 'nil' in JSON
 
 
 if ipy_version == 2:
@@ -91,4 +93,4 @@ def strip_output_from_cell(cell):
     for cell in json_in["cells"]:
         strip_output_from_cell(cell)
 
-json.dump(json_in, sys.stdout, sort_keys=True, indent=1, separators=(",",": "))
+json.dump(json_in, sys.stdout, sort_keys=True, indent=1, separators=(",", ": "))

config/requirements.txt

@@ -121,3 +121,6 @@ gensim
 
 # Plotting of graphs (simpler, but beautiful too)
 #seaborn
+
+
+nbstripout