How to pick file from a specific commit or branch
Sometime you are doing a feature and push branch to remote, but you want to redo the changed of the specific file and you don't want to manually do it. So it is better to pick from a specific commit that you want as below.
git checkout <commit-hash> -- file/location file/location
let walk through
To pick a file from a specific commit
example: utils/counter.ts from 2b323
git checkout 2b323 -- utils/counter.ts
To pick a file from a branch
example: utils/counter.ts from develop
git checkout develop -- utils/counter.ts
To pick a file from a previous commit before specific commit
example: utils/counter.ts from a commit before 2b323
git checkout 2b323~ -- utils/counter.ts