@robryk Yeah, that's where I get stuck. The ordering in English is "Nth parent of x" so my brain wants to direct map that sequence ("N of x") to "Nx".
Maybe it would help me to think "git does it like Japanese": x の N
I'm thinking of it as a notation that invokes a "method" on the commit with a potential argument.
@robryk @b0rk Now if I could just figure out a way to remember if the caret goes before or after the name...