# How to download current version models only?

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-download-current-version-models-only/32740>\
**Category:** Models\
**Created:** [February 28, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-download-current-version-models-only/32740 "2023-02-28T19:43:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![incameet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c57346/32.png) [@incameet](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/incameet)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-download-current-version-models-only/32740/1 "2023-02-28T19:43:23Z")

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Use an example to explain.

I use these commands to download bart-large:  
git lfs install  
git clone [facebook/bart-large · Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large)

The downloaded repo has size of 11 GB. The size of .git/lfs alone is 5.2 GB. I remove the objects under .git/lfs and still can load the models from the local bart-large folder. This makes me wonder if I just want to use the current version of models and will not modify the repo, do I still need objects under .git/lfs?

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**Author:** ![joaogante](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/joaogante/32/20106_2.png) [@joaogante](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/joaogante)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-download-current-version-models-only/32740/2 "2023-03-01T18:15:26Z")

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Hey @incameet

This would be a question for the Hub section of our forum 🙂

Have a look at [this documentation page](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/how-to-downstream).