ENH Deprecate clone_from behavior

src/huggingface_hub/repository.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import tempfile
 import threading
 import time
+import warnings
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Callable, Dict, Iterator, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
@@ -655,6 +656,12 @@ def clone_from(self, repo_url: str, use_auth_token: Union[bool, str, None] = Non
                                 " on Hugging Face Hub."
                             )
                         else:
+                            warnings.warn(
+                                "Creating a repository through clone_from is deprecated"
+                                "will be removed in v0.11.",
+                                FutureWarning,
+                            )
+
                             self.client.create_repo(
                                 repo_id=repo_id,
                                 token=token,

tests/test_repository.py

@@ -140,6 +140,17 @@ def test_clone_from_space(self):
                 use_auth_token=self._token,
             )
 
+    def test_clone_from_deprecation_warning(self):
+        with pytest.warns(
+            FutureWarning,
+            match="Creating a repository through clone_from is deprecated*",
+        ):
+            Repository(
+                WORKING_REPO_DIR,
+                clone_from=f"{USER}/{uuid.uuid4()}",
+                use_auth_token=self._token,
+            )
+
     def test_clone_from_model(self):
         temp_repo_url = self._api.create_repo(
             repo_id=f"{self.REPO_NAME}-temp", token=self._token, repo_type="model"