Git: How to pull a single file from a server repository in Git?

Question

I am working on a site with a server running Git. I am using Git for deployment (not GitHub). This was set up prior to my involvement using a hook method, and I referred to this

Answer 1

It is possible to do (in the deployed repository):

git fetch
// git fetch will download all the recent changes, but it will not put it in your current checked out code (working area).

Followed by:

git checkout origin/master -- path/to/file
// git checkout / -- path/to/file will checkout the particular file from the downloaded changes (origin/master).