How to print a Git LFS file's old version to stdout (git show / git cat-file for LFS)?

Question

Another title for this question could be \'How to checkout multiple versions of a Git-LFS managed file?\'

I would like to inspect several versions of a file stored i

Answer 1

Piping an lfs pointer into git lfs smudge will yield you what you want. For example:

git cat-file blob  | git lfs smudge

Or if you have a commit-ish (a commit hash, branch name, just HEAD, etc.) and a file name:

git cat-file blob :path/to/my-large-file.name | git lfs smudge

You could redirect the output into a file.