SETUP:
ACTION:
git checkout my_branch
to checkout a repository that contains a list of PNG files. Surfing the repository (BitBucket) at the according places shows, that the PNG images are all present.
EFFECT:
The files checked out contain the names of the PNG files in the repository, but their content is plain text, namely something like the following:
version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
oid sha256:c0ffeebabaa...f00d
size 3031
QUESTION:
What can be done here?
Other people, checking out from Windows computers, also, get the PNG files.
I removed the ./git/index file and git reset. But that did not help.
I removed the repository completely and cloned it again. But that did not help.
As mentioned by @torek, the problem arises from cloning a repository with git while the lfs plugin is not installed.
To fix this install git-lfs, for example with brew,
> brew install git-lfs
enter the repositories directory and type
> git lfs install
Possibly, you might have to delete the repository and clone it again.