There are some tools in the jupyter ecosystem that are aware of the .ipynb json format & make diffing + version control easier to manage (https://github.com/jup

There are some tools in the jupyter ecosystem that are aware of the .ipynb json format & make diffing + version control easier to manage (https://github.com/jupyter/nbdime https://github.com/jupyter/nbdime). Another option is by converting the notebook file to something (.py,.md,.html) that existing git tools are better at working with (https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext, https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert)