git checkout a single file from another branch and put in different folder

Question

I am trying to git checkout a single file from another branch.

Everything is fine, but it puts the file in the same directory tree of the branch that I am checking out.

There is a way to specify a different destination folder during git checkout?

This is what I did:

git checkout other_branch -- path/to/file/xxx

git status:

new file:             path/to/file/xxx

this the result I need (put xxx into the root directory of my working branch):

new file:             ./xxx

Answer 1

You have 2 options

1. chain 2 commands, git checkout other_branch -- file.txt && git mv file.txt folder/file.txt
2. or you can use worktree