>>108497944
With git-lfs, similar to >>108497971:
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/whatever/model
cd model
git lfs pull -I \*.gguf
Do this on an XFS or btrfs partition (something that supports reflink) or else it'll make two copies of every file and waste half your disk space.
The other option is to use fetch instead of pull and then find the blobs inside .git/lfs/objects/
. Each .gguf file in the working tree will be a little text file containing a hash, and the actual contents will be in the objects dir under that hash.