Working with branches

In Modelbit, different Git branches allow you to work separately from your teammates. Even more importantly, they let you use your Git-based code review, approval, and merge workflows as part of pushing your work to the main branch.

You can create a new branch using git, mb.create_branch or by clicking New Git Branch... in the Modelbit apps's branch picker.

Branches in Git

If you're working locally in a repository created by modelbit clone, then branches work exactly as you'd expect. Use git checkout to switch branches, and git branch to create branches.

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The modelbit package inherits the branch and authentication from the Git repo. Calling the Python API from a script within your Git repo will run in the context of whatever branch is currently checked out.

If you push a newly created branch, Modelbit will create a fork of your workspace with the changes from the branch.

Branches in Python

If you're in a Python environment, you can create branches with mb.create_branch and switch to them with mb.switch_branch:

mb.switch_branch("my_branch")

At this point, all datasets, models and deployments will come from the my_branch branch. New deployments will deploy to the my_branch branch.

Setting your branch during login

You can set your branch during notebook login using the branch= parameter:

import modelbit

mb = modelbit.login(branch="my-branch")