reverting

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Editorial note

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

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Quick take

a failure to maintain a higher state

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a failure to maintain a higher state

adjective

tending to return to an earlier state

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reverting.

noun

a failure to maintain a higher state

adjective

tending to return to an earlier state

Example sentences

"Hey, Jo, Dave's being an asshole 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.

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.