rollback
Return to an earlier working release or state after a failed change.
Use this when A deployment needs a tested recovery path.
without the term
“The deploy broke production. How do I go back to the version that worked? We also ran a database migration, does that matter?”
with the term · How do you ask a model for rollback?
Prepare and test rollback for this release. Check the previous artifact against the updated data and identify changes requiring forward recovery.
What is rollback?
Redeploy a known working release. If the failed release changed the data, the old code may not be able to read it, so that case needs a forward fix.
Why does rollback matter when vibe coding?
Restoring an old binary may fail against newly changed data.
How do you do rollback?
Identify a known working artifact and verify its compatibility with the state left by the new release.
What goes wrong with rollback?
Claiming a destructive data rewrite can be undone by redeploying old code.