From a1c68a438cfeb7ef1a3556faf9c88985cfd4c04f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Janne Grunau <janne-ffmpeg@jannau.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:28:59 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add instructions how to check out a specific svn revision
 with git

Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau <janne-ffmpeg@jannau.net>
---
 doc/git-howto.txt | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

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.