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[RFC/PATCH 0/2] Improve rebase documenation

From
Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
May 19, 2013, 11:52 UTC
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Recent discussions have shown that rebase isn't as well understood as as perhaps it should be for the basic user.

Add a softer introductory paragraph to the man page description, and in the second patch, add a second paragraph explaining the build up of the command so that users have a historical context in which to rationalise the command structure.

The second patch/paragraph will probably need the quoting checking as to which are quoting the generic command and which are the same text as a command example.

Basic wording is borrowed from on-list clarifications.
Philip Oakley (2):
  Doc rebase: Describe rebase as excluding merge commits
  Doc rebase: describe the priority of published work
 Documentation/git-rebase.txt | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
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1.8.1.msysgit.1
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  8. 2/2 Doc rebase: describe the priority of published workPhilip Oakley, May 19, 2013

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