Re: Which file is older in history?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 21, 2013, 12:21 UTC
Message-ID: <20130321122130.GA22607@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0nRgzNYViKSx97OyHVOQmFN61Ex9EUvr1JK-0=GX=uX0w@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 05:29:39PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

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> > This must be a trick question but the naïve way I think of is
> >
> >         git log --diff-filter=A -- path1 path2
> 
> Thanks, I didn't know about --diff-filter.  I'll need one extra step
> to figure out which commit corresponds to the introduction of which
> file, no?

Maybe

  git log --format=%H --name-status --diff-filter=A -- path1 path2 |
  perl -lne '
    if (/[0-9a-f]{40}/) { $commit = $& }
    elsif (/^A\t(.*)/) { $h{$1} = $commit }
    END { print "$h{$_} $_" for keys(%h) }
  '

-Peff