Re: Which file is older in history?

> 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