Re: Confused as to the correct syntax

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Oct 5, 2005, 23:16 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7jcrh7wu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200510052350.07217.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>

Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:

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> "A  suffix  ~<n>  to  a  revision parameter means the commit object that is 
> the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named commit object, following only 
> the first parent. I.e. rev~3 is equivalent to rev^ which is equivalent to 
> rev11^1."
>
> Why is rev~3 equivalent to rev^,  surely it is equivalent to rev^^^
>
> Why is rev~3 equivalent to rev11^1, should that not be rev^1^1^1

Sorry, for not knowing how to do that properly in Asciidoc ;-).

The source to the man page and HTML page reads like this:

* A suffix '~<n>' to a revision parameter means the commit
  object that is the <n>th generation grand-parent of the named
  commit object, following only the first parent.  I.e. rev~3 is
  equivalent to rev^^^ which is equivalent to rev^1^1^1.