All, I want to remove the .bin files from a falcon-40b-instruct from my local machine. However, when I do that, I also remove them from the hub repo so I cannot deploy to an inference endpoint. I want to still be able to change the other files later via a push from my local repo - so I only want t…

You can find the answer in this tutorial (“Convert lfs file to pointer” section). Also, when cloning a repo, it’s a good idea to prepend GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 to the command to download non-LFS files (and LFS pointers) only and save disk space. You can still download the content of LFS files later …

Removing .bin files from local repo but not from hub

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AndresReibel July 6, 2023, 5:09pm 3

Thanks that’s very helpful!

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Removing .bin files from local repo but not from hub

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