From 7b839142b04f0d349418632d891b81c0bc3a1eca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jens H. Nielsen" <jenshnielsen@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:59:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document that pcolormesh now takes a face argument to the
 edgecolor. And clarify that the colorbar in axesgrid1 is also drawn with
 pcolormesh.

---
 lib/matplotlib/axes.py                  | 4 +++-
 lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/colorbar.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
index 2d3b29ed2c81..56017a2bee2a 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
@@ -7413,11 +7413,13 @@ def pcolormesh(self, *args, **kwargs):
             'gouraud', each quad will be Gouraud shaded.  When gouraud
             shading, edgecolors is ignored.
 
-          *edgecolors*: [ *None* | ``'None'`` | color | color sequence]
+          *edgecolors*: [ *None* | ``'None'`` | ``'face'`` | color | color sequence]
             If *None*, the rc setting is used by default.
 
             If ``'None'``, edges will not be visible.
 
+            If ``'face'``, edges will have the same color as the faces. 
+
             An mpl color or sequence of colors will set the edge color
 
           *alpha*: ``0 <= scalar <= 1``  or *None*
diff --git a/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/colorbar.py b/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/colorbar.py
index b60d6a9a9398..c4dea240dd1c 100644
--- a/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/colorbar.py
+++ b/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/colorbar.py
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ def _edges(self, X, Y):
 
     def _add_solids(self, X, Y, C):
         '''
-        Draw the colors using :meth:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes.pcolor`;
+        Draw the colors using :meth:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes.pcolormesh`;
         optionally add separators.
         '''
         ## Change to pcolorfast after fixing bugs in some backends...