Add a Graphql Endpoint for Retrieving Raw file content

Problem to solve

Add a GraphQL endpoint for retrieving raw file content. This feature is especially useful if a user was a get the contents of a file without cloning the entire repository.

Intended users

Developers

User experience goal

I have an example query for Github.com, where text is the raw file text.

query RepoFiles($owner: String!, $name: String!, $path: String!) {
  repository(owner: $owner, name: $name) {
    object(expression: $path) {
      ... on Tree {
        entries {
          name
          type
          object {
            ... on Blob {
              byteSize
              text
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Please close if this is a duplicate. Thanks Gitlab team <3

Links / references

feature GraphQL