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code-server automatically opens notebooks and changes metadata on start

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jupyter-notebook

Research direction

Reproduce the behavior using the reported code-server, JupyterLab, and notebook setup, beginning with the startup/open-workspace flow. Compare the notebook metadata before and after code-server starts, then identify the integration entry point responsible. Done means the notebook does not open automatically and its metadata remains unchanged.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

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Is there an existing issue for this?
  • I have searched the existing issues
OS/Web Information
  • Web Browser: Microsoft Edge
  • Local OS: Amazon Linux 2023
  • Remote OS: Amazon Linux 2023
  • Remote Architecture:
  • code-server --version: 4.98.0
Steps to Reproduce
  1. Clone a git repository in your code-server environment
  2. Create a jupyter notebook in the git repository (let's call it test.ipynb)
  3. Open the test.ipynb file in the JupyterLab environment (NOT code-server) and edit it
  4. Git commit the edits from the JupyterLab terminal: git add . and then git commit -m "test commit"
  5. Now open the code-server environment:
  • The first strange thing is that the test.ipynb file will open automatically.

  • The second strange thing is that it edits the metadata of the notebook:

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Expected
  1. It shouldn't open the test.ipynb file automatically in the code-server environment.
  2. it shouldn't edit the notebook metadata.
Actual
  1. It opens the test.ipynb file automatically in the code-server environment.
  2. It edits the notebook metadata.
Does this bug reproduce in native VS Code?

This cannot be tested in native VS Code

Does this bug reproduce in GitHub Codespaces?

This cannot be tested in GitHub Codespaces

Are you accessing code-server over a secure context?
  • I am using a secure context.
Notes

My code-server environment runs inside a Docker container.
In this container I have installed:

  • jupyterlab: 4.4.2
  • jupyterlab_server: 2.27.3
  • jupyterhub: 1.5.0
  • code-server: 4.98.0

Also note that if I create a new Jupyter Notebook from code-server, these are the metadata I see:

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While, if I create a new Jupyter Notebook in the Jupyterlab environment, these are the metadata I see:

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