From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:46:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Which file is older in history?
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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> 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