Question

I am new to git. I and working in the dev branch. I need to merge one file to the master branch in my local repo and then check in the master. How do I do that?

I see this on guthub cheat sheet but qiute to nkt see the logic.

git merge laptop/xyz

So if file myfile then

git merge myfile master/origin?

Answer 1

Follow the below steps :

1) git branch
* master
  your_new_brach
2) git checkout your_new_brach my_file1 my_file2 my_file3
3) git status # You will see new changes into master branch 
4) git commit -m "'Merge' changes from 'your_new_brach' branch"

I think link is similar to your problem :
How do you merge selective files with git-merge?