Re: Which file is older in history?
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
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> I want to compare two files in a git repository and tell which one was
> introduced into the repository earlier, assuming that they're in the
> same history line (by ancestry, not timestamp). The naive way to do
> this is to find the individual commits that introduced the files
> (`rev-list HEAD -- <filename> | tail -n 1`), and...
This must be a trick question but the naïve way I think of is
git log --diff-filter=A -- path1 path2
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>