Modelbit Clone

Your Modelbit workspace is backed by a git repository that supports large binary files like .pkl and .joblib.

Supporting those large binary files requires some extra configuration in your local clone of the repository. The Modelbit Python package takes care of cloning your local repository and configuring it for those large files.

If you haven't already, install Modelbit:

pip install modelbit

Then clone your Modelbit workspace's repository:

modelbit clone [target directory]

The clone command will display a link for you to click, just like when using modelbit.login() in a notebook. Click the link to authenticate with Modelbit.

If you have configured GitHub or Gitlab as your git remote, the clone command will ask you to choose between GitHub/Gitlab and Modelbit's git host. Both will work equally well. We recommend choosing Modelbit's git host if you've already uploaded an SSH key to Modelbit.

From here on you can use all the standard git commands like git push and git pull.

Empty Binary Files

If you use git clone instead of modelbit clone to create a local repository, you'll see "stubs" in place of the .pkl and other binary files stored in git.

Re-clone the repository with modelbit clone to correct this situation.