Managing Spaces with Github Actions

Managing Spaces with Github Actions

You can keep your app in sync with your GitHub repository with Github Actions. Remember that for files larger than 10MB, Spaces requires Git-LFS. If you don’t want to use Git-LFS, you may need to review your files and check your history. Use a tool like BFG Repo-Cleaner to remove any large files from your history. BFG Repo-Cleaner will keep a local copy of your repository as a backup.

First, you should set up your GitHub repository and Spaces app together. Add your Spaces app as an additional remote to your existing Git repository.

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git remote add space https://huggingface.co/spaces/HF_USERNAME/SPACE_NAME

Then force push to sync everything for the first time:

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git push --force space main

Next, set up a GitHub Action to push your main branch to Spaces. In the example below:

• Replace HF_USERNAME with your username and SPACE_NAME with your Space name.

• Create a Github secret with your HF_TOKEN. You can find your Hugging Face API token under API Tokens on your Hugging Face profile.

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name: Sync to Hugging Face hub
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

  # to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  sync-to-hub:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
          lfs: true
      - name: Push to hub
        env:
          HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }}
        run: git push https://HF_USERNAME:$[e-mail]/spaces/HF_USERNAME/SPACE_NAME main

Finally, create an Action that automatically checks the file size of any new pull request:

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name: Check file size
on:               # or directly `on: [push]` to run the action on every push on any branch
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]

  # to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  sync-to-hub:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Check large files
        uses: ActionsDesk/lfs-warning@v2.0
        with:
          filesizelimit: 10485760 # this is 10MB so we can sync to HF Spaces