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Will push the changes to the remote repository. Omitting refspec makes git
push update all the remote branches matching the local ones.
+13. Finding a specific svn revission
+
+ Since version 1.7.1 git supports ':/foo' syntax for specifying commits
+ based on a regular expression. see man gitrevisions
+
+ git show :/'as revision 23456'
+
+ 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).
+
Contact the project admins <root at ffmpeg dot org> if you have technical
problems with the GIT server.