From: "Konstantin Khomoutov" <kos...@bswap.ru>
You understand the man page correcly but are you sure HEAD^1 and HEAD^2
is really what you want? To cite the manual page:
| A suffix ^ to a revision parameter means the first parent of that
| commit object. ^<n> means the <n>th parent.
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As an aside: I commonly get confused by the "Parent" notation. I tend to
think of the parentage numbers as being ancestry counts, so that it would
be:- parent, grand parent, great grandparent.
However that's not what it (^) means, rather it's more father, mother, step
father, stepmother, etc. So for me seeing ^3 always felt like it should be
great grand parent. Such was my confusion.
The ancestry / generation count use the '~' (tilde) as its symbol.
Good counting everyone.
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Philip
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