Currently we can only access the LFS list/delete functionality through the web interface, which is very inconvenient to manage in cases where I need to upload and delete frequently. Are there any plans to add these LFS management capabilities to the Hugging Face Python API (hf_api)? This would be e…

I think it would be faster to ask the developer.:sweat_smile: @Wauplin [image] huggingface/huggingface_hub The official Python client for the Huggingface Hub. - huggingface/huggingface_hub

Thanks for the ping :slight_smile: @larryvrh what are you exactly trying to achieve? For context, the upload_file/upload_folder/create_commit methods already work correctly with LFS files (i.e. if file is too large or matches gitattributes rules, it will automatically be uploaded as an LFS pointer)…

Hi, Wauplin, thanks for replying! My problem is that the LFS storage won’t release properly even after we use the high level API to delete files. For example, I currently store my different checkpoints in different branches of a repo, each created from the initial revision: huggingface_hub.create_b…

Ok so if I understand it correctly, what you try to achieve is to delete the actual files that are stored on S3 but it does not do it when you delete all the commits with a pointer to the said files, am I right? Untracked LFS files are indeed garbage collected from time to time but not instant and n…

Yes, this issue centers on S3 storage management. I can monitor which files are being garbage collected by checking the ‘Storage Usage’ section in each repository’s settings page. The problem arises because private storage is now a paid service. While I’m comfortable with paying, I frequently upload…

Right, I haven’t spot this issue indeed. I’ll ask around internally what can be done in this case. Note that repositories on the Hub are meant to version data and keep the history. And super_squash_commit meant to be a power-user method to reduce the number of commits but not thought it term of “del…

To complete on my answer above, here is some documentation about how to free-up space: Storage limits . There is a UI in the repo settings to manually delete some LFS files. We will also add support for this method in the Python client in the near future.

Got it, thanks a lot for helping! :+1: :blush:

Will LFS related functionality come to hf_api?

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PR: Support permanently deleting LFS files by Wauplin · Pull Request #2954 · huggingface/huggingface_hub · GitHub. Expect it to land in next huggingface_hub release.

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