From 30876e391731c8ae61402c4ea4df61af11292223 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Janne Grunau <janne-ffmpeg@jannau.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:20:06 +0000
Subject: Add section how to find a svn changeset with git commands

Originally committed as revision 26391 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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 doc/git-howto.txt | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/git-howto.txt')

diff --git a/doc/git-howto.txt b/doc/git-howto.txt
index 11f96803cd..a4575825bc 100644
--- a/doc/git-howto.txt
+++ b/doc/git-howto.txt
@@ -223,5 +223,16 @@ I. BASICS:
   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.
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