Junio C Hamano wrote: > Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html