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Allow downloading LFS binary data via API

Jerry Seto requested to merge 27892-cannot-download-lfs-binary-data-via-api-just-downloads-the-pointer-file into master

What does this MR do and why?

Allow downloading files tracked with Git LFS via API

When a request is made with the lfs query parameter for files that are tracked via Git LFS, the reponse should be the binary data rather than the pointer file

Contributes to: #27892 (closed)

How to set up and validate locally

  1. Set up a project with lfs enabled
  2. Add some files tracked with git lfs For example
git lfs track `*.txt`
echo 'hello' > hello.txt
  1. Make a request to the files api with the lfs parameter for the binary data and see that the response is the file contents(e.g For example
curl 127.0.0.1:3000/api/v4/projects/23/repository/files/hello.txt/raw?lfs=true
=> hello
  1. Make a request to the files api without the lfs parameter (and/or lfs=false) and see that response is the lfs text pointer

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Related to #27892 (closed)

Edited by Jerry Seto

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