The integration between the Model Garden and Colab Enterprise is great, but I feel Colab Enterprise is missing one key feature from Colab, as well as Vertex AI Workbench: the ability to quickly open a notebook from any arbitrary GitHub repository.
With Colab, I can simply change "github.com" to "colab.research.google.com/github" in the URL and open the notebook.
With Vertex AI Workbench, I can clone the repository and open the notebook from the file browser.
You can use the Terminal in Colab Enterprise to clone a repository, and you can see the files downloaded using the Files tab once a Colab Enterprise notebook is open, but it's a ruse: when you click the file, it opens in a separate tab, not rendered as a notebook and not executable.
Is this in fact a product limitation, or am I doing something wrong?
I'm not alone in my confusion:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77326806/how-to-open-a-notebook-from-github-in-colab-enterprise
I realize that one can manually download and upload notebooks, but that's not a particularly attractive option.
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