Overwrite single file in my current branch with the same file in the master branch?

Question

Say I have two branches - master and redesign . How would I go about overwriting the file default.aspx.cs in my redesign branch with the one from master?

I found this question but it seems to go over how to revert a file back to it's previous version in the same branch. I also considered using a merge , but I don't want to merge, I want to overwrite. Suggestions?

Answer 1

git checkout master path/to/default.aspx.cs

Before doing this, you probably have to : git checkout redesign

So, just git checkout FROM_BRANCH_NAME path/to/file