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Needed one change from a feature branch, without dragging the whole branch into main? There is a clean Git move for that. Quick thread on copying a single file across branches, no merge required.

Scenario: you updated a file in a branch, but main only needs to update that one file. Merging the branch would pull unrelated commits, risk conflicts, and expand the review surface.

Git can restore a file from another branch directly into your working tree. No cherry-pick, no merge commit, no rebasing gymnastics.

After running it, you still control what lands in main. Review the diff, run tests, then commit just that file change.