Configure nbstripout pre-commit hook to strip notebook metadata

[tarun-etikala]

Adds nbstripout configuration to the pre-commit hooks to automatically clean Jupyter notebooks of environment-specific metadata, execution outputs, and UI preferences while preserving cell IDs. This ensures cleaner git diffs, smaller notebooks, and fewer merge conflicts.

Related Tickets

• RHAIENG-1698

Type of change

• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

[accorvin]

Will this remove logging for executed cells? I think it could be very valid to want that data to be preserved in git so that examples can show expected output.

[shricharan-ks]

LGTM

[tarun-etikala]

Will this remove logging for executed cells? I think it could be very valid to want that data to be preserved in git so that examples can show expected output.

By default, nbstripout removes all the notebook outputs but some of the logs which are required can be preserved by tagging specific cells with keep_output or can exclude complete notebook.
It is a good practice to remove the cell outputs to avoid messy merge conflicts, repository bloat with png(plots). But we can have the keep_output tag to commit essential output to display an expected output whenever required.