How to cherry pick only changes for only one file, not the whole commit

Question

I need to apply changes introduced in one branch to another branch. I can use cherry pick to do that. However, in my case I want to apply changes which are relevant only for

Answer 1

git reset HEAD~1

moves the files into pre-commit stage

git stash

removes from memory

Now your branch is pretty clean (reverted to previous commit)

Answer 2

This is what are you looking for:

git checkout target-branch sha1 path/to/file

sha1 is optional

Answer 3

Git has everything ready :)

Just use git checkout <sha> <path-to-file>