roboflow / roboflow/roboflow-python
.download() re-downloads the same version even if it already exists on disk
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Description
The default behavior should be to use the local copy since versions are frozen in time. Perhaps we could provide a force=true option that deletes the existing one first to clear local changes.
But especially for large datasets this is wasting time and bandwidth when re-training.
Example from our YOLOv8 notebook:
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the .download() implementation and any tests covering dataset downloads. Run the existing download workflow with a version already present locally, then verify that the default behavior reuses it instead of downloading again. Confirm the expected handling of local changes and the proposed force option with maintainers.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- computer-vision, machine-learning
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100