Pull and update a file in Git
This article will discuss the steps to update a single file from a remote repository. This article is for those who want to pull changes from remote but apply the changes to only one file.
Pull and update a file in Git
The example below shows a local repository linked to a remote GitHub repository. Our local repository has a config.py file that we need to update from the remote.
Our remote branch has other changed files as well. The git pull command will fetch and merge all the changes from the remote, and we are not ready for that yet.
How can we update only the config.py file? We know that the git pull command is a combination of two commands; git fetch and git merge .
git fetchThe command will fetch changes from the remote, but will not update our local files.
$ git fetch
Changes from the remote repository should be accessible in our local repository.
We can then run git checkoutthe command while providing the path to our file.
$ git checkout m- <revision> <path-to-file>
<revision>Some are forks that <path-to-file>can be cloned from GitHub.
To get the file path, go to your GitHub account and navigate to the file location. You can copy the path as shown below.
We can run git checkoutthe command.
$ git checkout -m origin/master apps/config.py
Output:
$ git checkout -m origin/master apps/config.py
Updated 1 path from f8b3224
This will add the file to our index and we can commit our changes.
We have successfully updated a single file in the remote repository.
Summarize
Git allows us to fetch and update changes to individual files using the git checkout command.
When you enter the file path, do not include the repository name. You copy the path from the GitHub web page.
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