rendered paste body$ git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg /home/dennis/ffmpeg_git/
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/dennis/ffmpeg_git/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 457068, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (101318/101318), done.
remote: Total 457068 (delta 363681), reused 447659 (delta 355001)
Receiving objects: 100% (457068/457068), 108.23 MiB | 11.43 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (363681/363681), done.
$ cd ffmpeg_git/
$ git show :/'as revision 25887'
fatal: ambiguous argument ':/as revision 25887': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions