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Documented the incompatibility of shrink and cax kwargs in colorbar.
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If *mappable* is a :class:`~matplotlib.contours.ContourSet`, its *extend*
kwarg is included automatically.

Note that the *shrink* kwarg provides a simple way to keep a vertical
colorbar, for example, from being taller than the axes of the mappable
to which the colorbar is attached; but it is a manual method requiring
some trial and error. If the colorbar is too tall (or a horizontal
colorbar is too wide) use a smaller value of *shrink*.
The *shrink* kwarg provides a simple way to scale the colorbar with respect
to the axes. Note that if *cax* is specified it determines the size of the
colorbar and *shrink* and *aspect* kwargs are ignored.

For more precise control, you can manually specify the positions of
the axes objects in which the mappable and the colorbar are drawn. In
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