From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Doolan Subject: A confusing usage of the term 'successor' in the git glossary Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:06:14 -0700 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 31 19:06:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCcIO-0002ED-Hk for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:06:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756563Ab0JaSGQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:06:16 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:61355 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756555Ab0JaSGO (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:06:14 -0400 Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so2623757vws.19 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:06:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=oW4/ZckAqMd81PbEwA402LP76v1RkJtBfxe2kYoG+eo=; b=EzGrcrvIVuP+8TYaQ1+8t6WYr/oSWcWyVnwMGFTStD5LQ9qPTAw/6TmAxTOwijzQq6 QAMp9AXitmPvH6lwgt42JOe5rkeXZvSDkinYbDz44yUgXysjY4TnDSwOFGQEUe5J/7n0 V21x6N1yRD3ilDJacPb35mPGiVgy/XTfHYZgU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=Y4NyiRb5WAZj7I1NQ0UT6ahX7gBHchP8HXMWpEkjS/ZtZD6u5rIz9A60bL24bXRmgo nWyH8MuBNigj/QYHx5TLi6HqlnzhH6Q+q0mwyPVU3ZDDmPSvtAub622VdtVS+Pv/Z19y auuVUZhmqItQVbz/cstsTH4FSwRCXOuHvjN80= Received: by 10.224.55.201 with SMTP id v9mr7573588qag.307.1288548374277; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.62.5 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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?