Add support for specifying revisions when pushing to Hub via internal Trainer call (#36852)

* Update training_args.py

* Update trainer.py

* fixes

* fix

* remove extraneous comments

* explicit revision arg

* add msg

* fixup

* fix field name

* rename field revision to hub_revision

* restore gradient_checkpointing doc

* fix ws

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Co-authored-by: Arthur <48595927+ArthurZucker@users.noreply.github.com>

src/transformers/trainer.py

@@ -3938,7 +3938,7 @@ class Trainer:
 
         # Push to the Hub when `save_model` is called by the user.
         if self.args.push_to_hub and not _internal_call:
-            self.push_to_hub(commit_message="Model save")
+            self.push_to_hub(commit_message="Model save", revision=self.args.hub_revision)
 
     def _save_tpu(self, output_dir: Optional[str] = None):
         output_dir = output_dir if output_dir is not None else self.args.output_dir
@@ -4788,6 +4788,7 @@ class Trainer:
             token=self.args.hub_token,
             run_as_future=True,
             ignore_patterns=["_*", f"{PREFIX_CHECKPOINT_DIR}-*"],
+            revision=self.args.hub_revision,
         )
 
         push_jobs = [model_push_job]
@@ -4803,6 +4804,7 @@ class Trainer:
                 commit_message=commit_message + ", checkpoint",
                 token=self.args.hub_token,
                 run_as_future=True,
+                revision=self.args.hub_revision,
             )
             push_jobs.append(checkpoint_push)
 
@@ -4882,8 +4884,12 @@ class Trainer:
 
         self.create_model_card(model_name=model_name, **kwargs)
 
+        if revision is None:
+            revision = self.args.hub_revision
+
         # Wait for the current upload to be finished.
         self._finish_current_push()
+
         return upload_folder(
             repo_id=self.hub_model_id,
             folder_path=self.args.output_dir,

src/transformers/training_args.py

@@ -693,6 +693,8 @@ class TrainingArguments:
             Whether to make the repo private. If `None` (default), the repo will be public unless the organization's default is private. This value is ignored if the repo already exists.
         hub_always_push (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `False`):
             Unless this is `True`, the `Trainer` will skip pushing a checkpoint when the previous push is not finished.
+        hub_revision (`str`, *optional*):
+            The revision to use when pushing to the Hub. Can be a branch name, a tag, or a commit hash.
         gradient_checkpointing (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `False`):
             If True, use gradient checkpointing to save memory at the expense of slower backward pass.
         gradient_checkpointing_kwargs (`dict`, *optional*, defaults to `None`):
@@ -1361,6 +1363,12 @@ class TrainingArguments:
         default=False,
         metadata={"help": "Unless `True`, the Trainer will skip pushes if the previous one wasn't finished yet."},
     )
+    hub_revision: Optional[str] = field(
+        default=None,
+        metadata={
+            "help": "The revision to use when pushing to the Hub. Can be a branch name, a tag, or a commit hash."
+        },
+    )
     gradient_checkpointing: bool = field(
         default=False,
         metadata={
@@ -2861,6 +2869,7 @@ class TrainingArguments:
         token: Optional[str] = None,
         private_repo: Optional[bool] = None,
         always_push: bool = False,
+        revision: Optional[str] = None,
     ):
         """
         A method that regroups all arguments linked to synchronizing checkpoints with the Hub.
@@ -2904,6 +2913,8 @@ class TrainingArguments:
             always_push (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `False`):
                 Unless this is `True`, the `Trainer` will skip pushing a checkpoint when the previous push is not
                 finished.
+            revision (`str`, *optional*):
+                The revision to use when pushing to the Hub. Can be a branch name, a tag, or a commit hash.
 
         Example:
 
@@ -2922,6 +2933,7 @@ class TrainingArguments:
         self.hub_token = token
         self.hub_private_repo = private_repo
         self.hub_always_push = always_push
+        self.hub_revision = revision
         return self
 
     def set_optimizer(