Is it possible to pull just one file in Git?

Here is a slightly easier method I just came up with when researching this:

git fetch {remote}
git checkout FETCH_HEAD -- {file}

You can fetch and then check out only one file in this way:

git fetch
git checkout -m <revision> <yourfilepath>
git add <yourfilepath>
git commit

Regarding the git checkout command:

<revision> -- a branch name, i.e. origin/master
<yourfilepath> does not include the repository name (that you can get from clicking copy path button on a file page on GitHub), i.e. README.md

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