Function loadContent

pkg/cmd/repo/read-file/read_file.go:216–227

loadContent fetches the raw file bytes when the Contents API did not return them inline. The API only omits inline content for large files, which it marks with a "none" encoding; everything else (including empty files) comes back base64-encoded, so there is nothing to fetch.

(httpClient *http.Client, repo ghrepo.Interface, file *repoFile, ref string)

// The API only omits inline content for large files, which it marks with a "none" encoding;
// everything else (including empty files) comes back base64-encoded, so there is nothing to fetch.
func loadContent(httpClient *http.Client, repo ghrepo.Interface, file *repoFile, ref string) error {
	if file.Encoding != "none" {
		return nil
	}

	raw, err := fetchRawFile(httpClient, repo, file.Path, ref)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	file.Content = raw
	return nil
}

// lstatResult captures the subset of output-path information the command needs,
// determined without following a symlink at the path.