Add raw file endpoint to API

• Zendesk ticket: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/13340
• Dev link: None
• GitLab version: 8.2

It would be nice to have an API endpoint that will return a blog containing file contents. We currently have the ability to GET a file via http://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/repository_files.html. However, this returns JSON content with a bunch of other fields. Can we add a 'raw' endpoint that just returns the content and nothing else?

Next steps

cc/ @JobV @dzaporozhets Is this something we think is useful?

I think this would be a nice addition to the API. @dzaporozhets ?

Yes I think we can do it. Probably 8.7 or something

Milestone changed to 8.7

Added feature proposal and removed ~128370 labels

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Reassigned to @zj

Started branch add-raw-file-endpoint-to-api-3934

mentioned in merge request !3616 (closed)

@dblessing You could use:

GET https://gitlab.com/api/v3/projects/gitlab-org%2Fgitlab-ce/repository/blobs/master?filepath=CHANGELOG as pointed out by @rymai in the MR I created. Would this suffice?

Docs

Hi @zj Yes, seems likely that will be good enough. I reported back to the user and will close this in the mean time.

Status changed to closed