Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] Doc rebase: Describe rebase as excluding merge commits

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:

Philip Oakley wrote:

quoted

Describe rebase in the description section.

It already does that. :)  I think you mean "start with a summary",
which is a valuable improvement.

It indeed is a good idea to give the "high-level introduction" at
the very beginning, but I do not think it should describe only one
of the three major modes of "git rebase" (i.e. no -m, no -i), like
the proposed patch text does.  We should instead say what it is used
for and why the user would want to use it that is common across
these modes at a very high level.

	DESCRIPTION
	-----------
	<brief description of the purpose of the command, including some token
	mention of *why* a user would want to use it (e.g., "so that the patches
	apply cleanly to their new base").>

Exactly.