Is there anyway to directly link the research portion of the product to Github? It would be nice to have changes that I make in the ide automatically sync to my github repository.
Thanks,
We currently do not support such a feature. Research Notebooks do save copies frequently, so it is possible to revert to a previous state.
We currently don't support anything like this for the backtesting environment. However, it's not a bad idea: this might be useful eventually.
Thanks. The save feature in the research IDE, both the automatic save and the checkpoint save, is very useful. I guess if what I really want is to be able to put the Quantopian research IDE on top of my github repository. This would allow not just saving, but better collaboration. For example, the strategy I am working on now involved 3rd party data. I do a lot of pre-processing of the dataset before it is a CSV that is ready to be pulled into the system. If I had access to my give and could use the local_csv feature that would be useful. Additionally, it makes it easier to link the stuff I'm doing in quantopian with other scripts that do things that I can't do in the research/backtest environments. Anyway, just a thought. It seems like Quantopian is basically building that functionality inside of the product. My thought is, why re-invent the wheel here when directly linking to github would be so much easier.
Anyway, thanks for the response.
That's a much more detailed description of your use case -- I understand your need. I agree that this could be very useful for our users, so I've submitted an internal feature request. However, we're currently in a phase in which we're working on a lot of other features -- we do have to prioritize, and I'm not sure where this quality-of-life update would fall in comparison to creating or updating essential features.
I'm sure that we will eventually have such a feature, it's just not certain when.
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