How to see the file size history of a single file in a git repository?

You can use either git ls-tree -r -l <revision> <path> to get the blob size at given revision, e.g.

$ git ls-tree -r -l v1.6.0 gitweb/README
100644 blob 825162a0b6dce8c354de67a30abfbad94d29fdde   16067    gitweb/README

From the docs:

 -r                    recurse into subtrees
 -l, --long            include object size

The blob size in this example is ‘16067’. The disadvantage of this solution is that git ls-tree can process only one revision at once.

You can use instead git cat-file --batch-check < <list-of-objects> instead, feeding it blob identifiers. If location of file didn’t change through history (file was not moved), you can use git rev-list <starting-point> -- <path> to get list of revisions touching given path, translate them into names of blobs using <revision>:<path> extended SHA-1 syntax (see git-rev-parse manpage), and feed it to git cat-file. Example:

$ git rev-list -5 v1.6.0 -- gitweb/README | 
  sed -e 's/$/:gitweb\/README/g' |
  git cat-file --batch-check
825162a0b6dce8c354de67a30abfbad94d29fdde blob 16067
6908036402ffe56c8b0cdcebdfb3dfacf84fb6f1 blob 16011
356ab7b327eb0df99c0773d68375e155dbcea0be blob 14248
8f7ea367bae72ea3ce25b10b968554f9b842fffe blob 13853
8dfe335f73c223fa0da8cd21db6227283adb95ba blob 13801

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