Question

I am new to git.So please forgive for basic question.
I have couple of checkouts of repos: Folder1 is on Server1 and Folder2 is on Server2.

Folder2 only “git pull” changes.
This fetches all files which is checked-in from Folder1.

I want to update only specific file something like “cvs update filename”

cvs update filename 

I tried “git checkout -- filename” which simply not doing anything.
I followed these step:s

#Commit and push changes in foo.txt from Folder1 on Server1.
# On Servers 
cd Folder2
git checkout -- foo.txt

Above command is just not doing any updates.

Answer 1

If you have push a commit from repo1 to repo2, then repo2 should directly see the updated file.
But just in case, You need to:

git fetch repo1
git checkout repo1/master -- path/to/file

Provided that repo2 has a remote named “repo1“.
If that remote is named “origin” (default name), then

git fetch origin
git checkout origin/master -- path/to/file

In both cases, to see update on a specific file from a remote repo (like repo1), you need to fetch that remote repo first into repo2.