Hi @lordvader31, can you check in your git config if some credentials are set with username+password? This would explain why you get Authentication required: Password authentication in git is no longer supported.. You should also make sure that the ssh key associated with the id_rsa.pub is used by git when cloning the repo.
On another note, I would suggest to use the huggingface-cli tool if you can. This won’t “clone” the repo per-se but download the files to your computer. It is usually faster and more robust that the git clone command. If you plan to use the whisper weights without contributing to the repo (e.g. making commits, PRs, etc.), this should be the preferred tool. Here are some documentation on how to use it: Command Line Interface (CLI).
Among other things, huggingface-cli download is more flexible in the sense that you can chose which files you want to download instead of cloning the full repo. This is especially useful when a repo contains weights in different formats. This applies to the CLI but also to the Python client in general. Here is an explanation of why we suggest the http-based approach instead of git: Git vs HTTP paradigm.
Hey Wauplin, thanks a lot for the reply. I did indeed need just the model details and don’t intend on making any contributions. I will use the huggingface-cli tool hence forth.
Just for the sake of figuring out the problem, my .gitconfig file is given below. There is no credential or username+password field. How do I check which ssh key is used by git to clone a repo ?
