# Use Git Repositories in a Notebook Instance
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When you open a notebook instance that has Git repositories associated with it, it opens in the default repository, which is installed in your notebook instance directly under `/home/ec2-user/SageMaker`. You can open and create notebooks, and you can manually run Git commands in a notebook cell. For example:

```
!git pull origin master
```

To open any of the additional repositories, navigate up one folder. The additional repositories are also installed as directories under `/home/ec2-user/SageMaker`.

If you open the notebook instance with a JupyterLab interface, the jupyter-git extension is installed and available to use. For information about the jupyter-git extension for JupyterLab, see [https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-git](https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-git).

When you open a notebook instance in JupyterLab, you see the git repositories associated with it on the left menu:

![\[Example file browser in JupyterLab.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/images/git-notebook.png)


You can use the jupyter-git extension to manage git visually, instead of using the command line:

![\[Example of the jupyter-git extension in JupyterLab.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/images/jupyterlab-git.png)