Reverting in a sentence as a noun

"Hey, Jo, Dave's being an ******* and reverting my commits for no reason.

I mean, someone reverting your code because of a personal vendetta?

> I mean, someone reverting your code because of a personal vendetta?I laughed out loud when I read this and several other specific details in the story.

Reverting in a sentence as an adjective

It really surprises me that somebody can get away with such destructive behaviour as reverting someone else's commits without reasonable cause.

I think the biggest problem in reverting to original titles is that oftentimes, the original title is not bad, but it only makes sense in the context of the original blog in which it appears.

We put the fire out by reverting the Oracle DB version on a few big sites, telling everyone else to downgrade as well, and posting on an out of band channel that if you were doing anything important with the Internet you might want to stop for a few hours because there were going to be two separate and very mutually incompatible Internets and one of them was going to suddenly vanish a couple hours later and it sure would suck if your mail/web browsing/Dropbox/etc went into that one."Seriously.

Reverting definitions

noun

a failure to maintain a higher state

See also: backsliding lapse lapsing relapse relapsing reversion

adjective

tending to return to an earlier state

See also: returning