Git How to update checkout a single file from remote origin master

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The scenario    I make some changes in a single file locally and run git add  git commit and git push The file is pushed to the remote origin master repository I have another local repository that is deployed via Capistrano with the  remote cache  method from that remote repository Now I don t want to deploy the whole application but just update checkout that single file    Is this somehow possible with git  I wasn t able to find anything that would work nor was I able to figure it out  With SVN I just did svn up file and voila

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With Git 2 23  August 2019  and the new  still experimental  command git restore  seen in  How to reset all files from working directory but not from staging area    that would be   git fetch git restore -s origin master -- path to file   The idea is  git restore only deals with files  not files and branches as git checkout does  See  Confused by git checkout   that is where git switch comes in     codersam adds in the comments      in my case I wanted to get the data from my upstream  from which I forked     So just changed to   git restore -s upstream master -- path to file

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It is possible to do  in the deployed repository   git fetch git checkout origin master -- path to file   The fetch will download all the recent changes  but it will not put it in your current checked out code  working area    The checkout will update the working tree with the particular file from the downloaded changes  origin master    At least this works for me for those little small typo fixes  where it feels weird to create a branch etc just to change one word in a file

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git archive --format zip --remote ssh    lt user gt   lt host gt  repos  lt repo name gt   lt tag or HEAD gt   lt filename gt   gt   lt output file name gt  zip

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Following code worked for me        git fetch      git checkout  lt branch from which file needs to be fetched gt   lt filepath gt

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What you can do is    Update your local git repo   git fetch Build a local branch and checkout on it   git branch pouet  amp  amp  git checkout pouet Apply the commit you want on this branch   git cherry-pick abcdefabcdef   abcdefabcdef is the sha1 of the commit you want to apply

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Or git stash  if you have changes  on the branch you re on  checkout master  pull for the latest changes  grab that file to your desktop  or the entire app   Checkout the branch you were on  Git stash apply back to the state you were at  then fix the changes manually or drag it replacing the file   This way is not sooooo cool but it def works if you guys can t figure anything else out

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I think I have found an easy hack out   Delete the file that you have on the local repository  the file that you want updated from the latest commit in the remote server   And then do a git pull  Because the file is deleted  there will be no conflict

[git] Git: How to update/checkout a single file from remote origin master?

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