integration between google colab and github

Question

I am working in google colab with an ipython notebook which I "opened" using the link from github (the notebook is uploaded to Github). Then, in the body of notebook I cloned the repository to have an access to a library from a repository. I want to modify this library occasionaly, eg write a new function. I noticed that even though I can view the code for the files in this library, and even modify the code of this library in colab, eg write a new function, I can't import this function in my ipython notebook. What is the best way to solve this problem?

I tried to modify the library on my local computer, then upload these files to github. But when I try to pull the files from the repository on ipython notebook on colab using !git pull origin master it says that all files are already up to date. Even a new added function is present in a library in colab - I still cannot import the function.

I also tried to close and "open" again this notebook in colab using the github link (to be able to run a cell with !git clone again - I deleted these files from the notebook in colab using %rm -rf beforehand). Colab still doesn't see the function defined in github.

I'm new to git and colab. Please, help.

Answer 1

first point out to the location in drive as

%cd /content/drive/My Drive/dir1

then clone the directory you want, eg,

!git clone https://github.com/KaiDMML/FakeNewsNet

on refreshing the drive, you will find the cloned directory in the drive.

Remember to connect to the drive first before all these steps