From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:59:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Which file is older in history?
Message-ID: <CALkWK0nRgzNYViKSx97OyHVOQmFN61Ex9EUvr1JK-0=GX=uX0w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vobeddcjq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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

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?