# Hugging Face — Migrating the Hub from Git LFS to Xet

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-07-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: infrastructure-release
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/migrating-the-hub-to-xet
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1658-migrating-the-hub-from-git-lfs-to-xet

Hugging Face is migrating the Hub's storage backend from Git LFS to Xet, a new storage system that scales with AI workloads. The migration uses a Git LFS Bridge for backward compatibility and background content migrations. Over 500,000 repositories holding 20 PB have moved, and more than 1 million users are now using Xet. The team fixed scaling issues after testing with bartowski's repos.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/migrating-the-hub-to-xet:

> In January of this year, Hugging Face's Xet Team deployed a new storage backend, and shortly after shifted ~6% of Hub downloads through the infrastructure. ... Today, more than 1 million people on the Hub are using Xet. In May, it became the default on the Hub for new users and organizations.

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