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A confusing usage of the term 'successor' in the git glossary

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LDLee Doolan <lee.doolan@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2010, 18:06 UTC
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In the gitglossary
(http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitglossary.html) I
see this:
,----
| chain
|
| A list of objects, where each object in the list contains a reference
| to its successor (for example, the successor of a commit could be one
| of its parents).
`----
don't you mean predecessor instead of successor?
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  1. Lee DoolanOct 31, 2010
  2. Michael J GruberNov 1, 2010

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