Lifecycle scripts to access the notebook instance git repository

Hi there,
Is it possible for the lifecycle scripts to access the content of the checkout-ed git repository? A use case would be to access the already available in the repository pip requirements file and to populate the notebook instance with the required python modules on start up.
I guess the answer to this question depends on the order of the executed events when a notebook is created. Are you executing the lifecycle scripts first and then checkout the repository or vice versa.

Thanks!

Edit:

Well, I did my experiment as follows.

I added a simple 'ls -al SageMaker' in the start and create lifecycle scripts and inspected the logs.
It seems that on initial notebook instance creation the git repository is checked out after the execution of the start and create scripts.
On subsequent notebook starts, the start script is executed and the repository folder is present in the SageMaker folder with a timestamp indicating that the repository folder was created after the initial start/create scripts executions.

So, can someone confirm that this is what's expected and that we can access the repository only on subsequent notebook starts?

Edited by: ainkov on Apr 3, 2019 7:25 AM