Re: Confused as to the correct syntax

Alan Chandler [off-list ref] writes:

"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.