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Subject: Re: Which file is older in history?
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 05:29:39PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> > This must be a trick question but the na=C3=AFve way I think of is
> >
> >         git log --diff-filter=3DA -- path1 path2
>=20
> 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?

Maybe

  git log --format=3D%H --name-status --diff-filter=3DA -- path1 path2 =
|
  perl -lne '
    if (/[0-9a-f]{40}/) { $commit =3D $& }
    elsif (/^A\t(.*)/) { $h{$1} =3D $commit }
    END { print "$h{$_} $_" for keys(%h) }
  '

?

-Peff