You can use the following command:
git checkout HEAD -- my-file.txt
… which will update both the working copy of my-file.txt and its state in the index with that from HEAD.
-- basically means: treat every argument after this point as a file name. More details in this answer. Thanks to VonC for pointing this out.
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