Open Letter of Apology

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 27, 2018, at 22:27, Helmut K. C. Tessarek wrote:

> On 2018-04-27 22:34, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> It was a bunch of work figuring out exactly what to do (it took me
>> almost an hour) but I think I've done a proper revert commit.
> 
> If you have any git related questions, please drop me an email.
> I'm not an absolute git expert, but I had my fair share in dealing with
> certain git issues.
> Depending on the repo and its settings either a `rebase -i` (requires a
> forced push) or a `revert` will do the job in this case.

The repository permissions are deliberately set to prohibit force pushes that change the history of master or release branches. Changing history causes problems that we want to avoid.