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

In the gitglossary
(http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitglossary.html) I
see this:
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| 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).
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don't you mean predecessor instead of successor?