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So let’s say I want to change the pipeline_tag in the README.md of facebook/bart-large-mnli · Hugging Face from zero-shot-classification to text-classification. Is there a way for me to do this without having to download all of the contained files? E.g. on GitHub cloning “remotely” is possible

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There’s no web interface for editing files inside HF. However, you don’t need to download the LFS files, the GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE environment variable controls this. On Linux, use GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 before any commands that involve LFS (or on its own to set it for the rest of the session). On windows, you’ll want to use a command before doing anything at all, set GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 (windows doesn’t support temporary environment variables for a single command)

First you’ll have to fork the repo if you don’t have direct access to it (even GitHub won’t let you make changes anymore without a fork, they just don’t tell you until after you’ve edited the file, I think?). You will need git installed, and you might need huggingface_hub (in which case you’ll need Python installed; if you don’t have python installed, I recommend using a colab session or other free python environment on the web)

# if you didn't have git configured already, you'll need to configure it with username and email address.
git config user.name "Ronald McDonald"
git config user.email "presidentronald@mcdonalds.com"
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/Daniel391/bart-large-mnli
cd bart-large-mnli
# edit your file. nano is superior to vim *and* emacs. The only thing better than nano is Visual Studio 2012.
nano README.md
git commit README.md -m "turned all pseudocode into emojicode 😉"
# not sure if this line is necessary, maybe someone can correct me?
pip install huggingface_hub && huggingface-cli lfs_enable_largefiles .
git push

After this, you can make a request to have the file updated through hugging face website

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Apparently I was wrong. There is, in fact, a built-in editor for text files, I just completely missed it on mobile (either it doesn’t show up, or I straight up ignored it :man_shrugging:)

On viewing a file, at least in your own repo, you can edit a file by clicking this link:

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