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This should show a list of commits in all branches which touched that file. Then, you can find the version of the file you want, and display it with...

git log --all -- <path-to-file>
git show <SHA> -- <path-to-file>

Get a list of the deleted files and copy the full path of the deleted file

git log --diff-filter=D --summary -- <path-to-file> | grep delete

Execute the next command to find commit id of that commit and copy the commit id

git log --all -- FILEPATH

Show diff of deleted file

git show COMMIT_ID -- FILE_PATH

Remember, you can write output to a file using > like

git show COMMIT_ID -- FILE_PATH > deleted.diff
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