small correction to HF deployment script

Author: qchapp

.github/workflows/deploy-to-hf.yml

@@ -13,22 +13,15 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
+          fetch-depth: 1
           lfs: true
 
-      # Remove assets so they are not pushed to HF
-      - name: Remove assets folder for HF push
+      - name: Prepare clean HF deploy branch without assets
         run: |
-          rm -rf assets
-          git rm -r --cached assets || true
-
-      # 👇 This step ONLY changes README in the CI workspace, not in your repo
-      - name: Generate Hugging Face README with YAML frontmatter
-        run: |
-          # Keep original README content
+          # Save original README content
           mv README.md README.project.md
 
-          # Create new README with HF config at the top
+          # Create Hugging Face README
           cat << 'EOF' > README.md
           ---
           title: AI Agent
@@ -42,20 +35,30 @@ jobs:
 
           EOF
 
-          # Append the original README content below the YAML block
+          # Append original README below HF frontmatter
           cat README.project.md >> README.md
 
-          # Commit this *locally* so we can push it to the HF remote
+          # Remove files/folders that should not be pushed to HF
+          rm -rf assets
+
+          # Create a fresh branch with no previous Git history
+          git checkout --orphan hf-deploy
+
+          # Remove old tracked files from Git index
+          git rm -rf --cached . || true
+
+          # Add current cleaned workspace
+          git add -A
+
+          # Commit cleaned deployment version
           git config user.email "ci@github.actions"
           git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
-          git add README.md
-          git commit -m "Add HF Spaces frontmatter to README for deployment" || echo "No changes to commit"
+          git commit -m "Deploy to Hugging Face Space"
 
-      - name: Push main to HF Space SDSC/ai-agent
+      - name: Push clean deploy branch to HF Space SDSC/ai-agent
         env:
           HF_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.HF_TOKEN }}
         run: |
-          # Push the current branch (main, with the local README commit) to the Space's main
           git push --force \
             https://SDSC:${HF_TOKEN}@huggingface.co/spaces/SDSC/ai-agent \
-            HEAD:main
+            hf-deploy:main