Add instructions how to check out a specific svn revision with git

Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau <janne-ffmpeg@jannau.net>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/git-howto.txt b/doc/git-howto.txt
index 720f0d0008..56232acc16 100644
--- a/doc/git-howto.txt
+++ b/doc/git-howto.txt
@@ -239,6 +239,16 @@ I. BASICS:
   will show the svn changeset r23456. With older git versions searching in
   the git log output is the easiest option (especially if a pager with
   search capabilities is used).
+  This commit can be checked out with
+
+    git checkout -b svn_23456 :/'as revision 23456'
+
+  or for git < 1.7.1 with
+
+    git checkout -b svn_23456 $SHA1
+
+  where $SHA1 is the commit SHA1 from the 'git log' output.
+
 
 Contact the project admins <root at ffmpeg dot org> if you have technical
 problems with the GIT server.