Re: [PATCH 1/5] doc: git-rebase: start with an example

"Julia Evans" [off-list ref] 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].

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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.