How to merge specific files from Git branches

Question

I have 2 git branches branch1 and branch2 and I want to merge file.py in branch2 into file.py in branch1 and only that file.

In essence I just want to work on the fi

Answer 1

The simplest solution is:

git checkout the name of the source branch and the paths to the specific files that we want to add to our current branch

git checkout sourceBranchName pathToFile