Open Letter of Apology

Perry E. Metzger pmetzger at macports.org
Sat Apr 28 00:47:35 UTC 2018


On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 16:33:23 -0700 Marcus Calhoun-Lopez
<mcalhoun at macports.org> wrote:
> Recently, I made some major changes to the cargo PortGroup and the
> Portfiles of several people. My intent was:
> 	*) create a branch
> 	*) solicit feedback on the branch with the changes
> 
> Instead, I pushed the changes to master.
> It was very careless of me, and I sincerely apologize to all those
> I have inconvenienced.
> 
> I would like to mitigate my error as much as possible.
> Does anyone know of an easy was to rollback my changes?
> I am afraid my inability to correctly use Git is what caused this
> problem in the first place.

Can you identify the set of commits in question? If you can tell us
their identifiers, we can reverse them quite easily.

In the future, you might try forking the repository into your own
GitHub account and checking *that* out in order to play with the
operations you need to perform.

-- 
Perry E. Metzger		pmetzger at macports.org


More information about the macports-dev mailing list