Hugging Face Hub deprecates password-based Git authentication; migrate to PAT or SSH by Oct 1, 2023
Action Required
CI/CD pipelines and local repositories using password-based Git authentication to Hugging Face Hub must switch to a personal access token or SSH key before Oct 1, 2023; otherwise Git operations will fail.
AI Impact Summary
Hugging Face Hub is removing password-based Git authentication and enforcing token-based or SSH key methods starting October 1, 2023. This affects all Git operations against hugggingface.co repositories, including CI pipelines and local workflows that rely on passwords. Teams must generate a personal access token or SSH key and update remotes accordingly (e.g., git remote set-url origin https://<user>:<token>@huggingface.co/<repo_path> or git remote set-url origin git@hf.co:<repo_path>). This change enhances security by making credentials revocable and rotatable.
Affected Systems
- Date
- Date not specified
- Change type
- deprecation
- Severity
- high