[git] How can I selectively merge or pick changes from another branch in Git?

There is another way to go:

git checkout -p

It is a mix between git checkout and git add -p and might quite be exactly what you are looking for:

   -p, --patch
       Interactively select hunks in the difference between the <tree-ish>
       (or the index, if unspecified) and the working tree. The chosen
       hunks are then applied in reverse to the working tree (and if a
       <tree-ish> was specified, the index).

       This means that you can use git checkout -p to selectively discard
       edits from your current working tree. See the “Interactive Mode”
       section of git-add(1) to learn how to operate the --patch mode.

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