Create Populate Projects script for jupyter notebook

[jng34]

Fixes #1992

What changes did you make and why did you make them ?

• Create Populate Projects script for jupyter notebook to update projects to managed by users
• Create vrms-populate-projects-test database to run script on cloned users and projects

Screenshots of Proposed Changes Of The Website (if any, please do not screen shot code changes)

[trillium]

Hey @jng34

From the call today we suggest:

1. Make a copy of your branch eg branch-copy

Undo both of of your commits

2. git reset @~2

Update .gitignore

Chat GPT suggests:

# Jupyter Notebook checkpoints
.ipynb_checkpoints/

# Jupyter runtime files
.jupyter/

# Hidden notebook state (metadata, autosaves)
*.nbconvert.ipynb
*.nbconvert/

# VSCode / PyCharm or other IDE junk (optional, but useful)
.vscode/
.idea/

# Python cache
__pycache__/
*.pyc
*.pyo
*.pyd
*.pkl

# OS files
.DS_Store
Thumbs.db

4. Add .gitigore and commit

5. Add the notebook changes you have in your two commits

6. Once satisfied with that process, go back to your current branch eg populateProjectsJupyterNotebook

7. Bring changes from updated branch to your current branch:

git reset --hard branch-vopy or git merge branch-copy should both work

[jng34]

@trillium
Thanks for those steps. I updated the .gitignore file and had to perform additional steps to get it to work.

PerplexityAI suggested that after cloning the branch, I run the following code to remove unwanted files from Git index to reapply gitignore:

git rm -r --cached .
git add .

and then

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch venv/' --prune-empty -- --all

to rewrite history to remove ignored files from past commits.

Lastly,

git push origin populateProjectsJupyterNotebook --force

[trillium]

Hey James, thanks for your work in this one. Approving this PR, when the other one is changed and merged we will run this together :)