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by ahmedfromtunis 967 days ago
To make it even clearer, "^3" is when a team of, say, 4 commits contributed to the current commit. "^3" is then the team member number 3.

"~3" however refres to grand-grand-parent to the current commit.

It's confusing because ^ looks like an up-arrow, so we think of it as a pointer to look n levels up. That's not the case.