Applying Common Changes to Multiple Branches in Git

Say you have two branches, branchA and branchB.

Assume that in branchA you have
file1.txt
file3.txt

whereas in branchB you have
file2.txt
file3.txt

Say you want to make some change that will be common to both branchA and branchB; that is, for example, you want to add the same file to them, so that branchA shall become
file1.txt
file3.txt
file4.txt

and branchB shall become
file2.txt
file3.txt
file4.txt

To do this, you first need to commit to either branch, say branchA.
$ git checkout branchA
$ # write file4.txt
$ git add file4.txt
$ git commit file4.txt -m 'add file4'

Next, you just need to clone the very last commit using git cherry-pick
$ git checkout branchB
$ git cherry-pick branchA

If you have more branches, then simply repeat the above cherry-pick steps to branchC, branchD, and so forth.