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Migrating from XetHub to Hugging Face
As you might heard the news, Hugging Face acquires Seattle data storage startup XetHub. This is great specially for Hugging Face hub, AI models become more complex these days and efficient data management isn’t a luxury anymore but a necessity.
If you are using XetHub, you might already noticed that the service going to shut down in three phases:
- August 8, 2024: New user registration disabled.
- August 31, 2024: All XetHub repositories turned read-only.
- September 30, 2024: XetHub service shutdown.
So you need to start planing for a migration. You need to decided which repository platform you going to use. Hugging face can be an option, Github or Gitlab are the other options and you probably need to use GIT LFS if your repo does have large files as Git providers usually have a limit.
- GitHub: Git LFS required on files over 100MB, see additional limits.
- GitLab: See account limits.
- HuggingFace: Git LFS recommended on files over 10MB.
Install LFS
So let’s beging with installing the LFS, you can install LFS using the following based on your machine:
