Help wanted: Avoid having to clone ENTIRE tensorflow/models repository
Closed this issue · 4 comments
When I originally wrote this guide, the tensorflow/models repository (https://github.com/tensorflow/models) was much smaller than it is today. The git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/tensorflow/models.git command in Step 5 downloaded about 200MB worth of data. Today, it's a 900MB download! The download takes too long for people who have poor internet connections.
Is there a way around downloading the full tensorflow/models repository? We can't only download the object_detection folder, because the Object Detection API uses files from the models/research and models/research/slim directories. It probably uses files from other places in the repository, too (I haven't checked to see all the modules the API uses).
I know I can just use TensorFlow Lite. I'm already working on a guide showing how to set up TensorFlow Lite on the Pi. However, I'd like to find a less data-hungry way to get the regular TensorFlow Object Detection API downloaded on the Pi.
How can we get the TensorFlow Object Detection API working without downloading the full tensorflow/models repository?
have you tried --depth 1?
https://linuxhint.com/git-shallow-clone-and-clone-depth/
@ladyada that looks promising, I will try it out. If it's a reasonably small size and everything works, I'll close this issue.
P.S. Thanks for the pull requests! SO awesome that we don't have to build protobuf-compiler from scratch anymore. 😸
awesome!
There's two changes that will make it a little better!
1: Using --depth 1
2: Removing the --recurse-submodules portion of the git command
I tested it out with these changes and it reduces the download size to about 370MB. And everything still works! I will update my guide with these changes. 👍