"Julia Evans" <julia@xxxxxxx> writes: > I'm very happy to hear that feedback: I thought it was very dry as > well, but I copied that part from elsewhere in the man page > because I thought that was git's preferred documentation > style. I'll work on making it less dry. [administrivia: please wrap your overlong lines; we write for this hypothetiical reader on an 80-column terminal]. >> Note that you lost the mention of `git rebase master topic` syntax >> and the explanation that the form being a shorthand for checkout >> followed by rebase, which I do not think appear anywhere else in the >> document, so my suggested rewrite above resurrects it. > > That's actually in PATCH 3/5 of this series:... Which I think is too late; both are quite commonly used and useful, so showing them upfront when the command line examples are first introduced would be more preferrable. Thanks.
