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authorGibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>2017-05-13 18:12:26 +0100
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doc: document method for reverting commits
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/13015 Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12979 Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4679#issuecomment-172421320 Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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@@ -252,6 +252,13 @@ not can often be based on many complex factors that are not easily codified. It
is also possible that the breaking commit can be labeled retroactively as a
semver-major change that will not be backported to Current or LTS branches.
+##### Reverting commits
+
+Commits are reverted with `git revert <HASH>`, or `git revert <FROM>..<TO>` for
+multiple commits. Commit metadata and the reason for the revert should be
+appended. Commit message rules about line length and subsystem can be ignored.
+A Pull Request should be raised and approved like any other change.
+
### Deprecations
Deprecation refers to the identification of Public APIs that should no longer