If Something Breaks

Don’t panic. Every save you make through the admin UI becomes a Git commit, which means almost any editing mistake can be undone with a single click.

The recovery procedure

Open github.com/leopoldblum/bears-website/commits/main. You’ll see every save to the site, newest first. Find the last commit that was known-good (usually the one just above the commit that broke things), click the ... menu on the bad commit, and hit Revert.

GitHub opens a pull request that undoes the change. Merge that PR, and within a few minutes the site rebuilds from the previous state. Done.

When to use it

Any time you catch yourself thinking “did I just break it?” — after a save, when a page looks wrong, when the site won’t load, when you meant to tweak one word and something else changed. Reverting is safe, reversible, and doesn’t touch any code.

When it isn’t enough

If reverting the last commit doesn’t fix it, or the problem goes further back than one commit, ping a developer. But that’s rare — the Revert button covers roughly 95% of editing mishaps.