Merging only one file from a git branch (patching)

Say you have branches for different aspects of the same project and you want to merge only a single file (e.g. the configuration file). Short of copy-pasting all the changes by hand, how might you approach this problem?

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The Problem

So we have a branch. This branch contains an update, bug-fix or enchantment and we wish to pass that on to all our…