> From: Ken Manheimer <ken.manheimer@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 16:09:51 -0400
> Cc: 42218@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> In my local checkout of the emacs-27 branch I have reversal of the five commits ready to push upstream. I'm
> sorry to bother you further with this, but rather than risk compounding the problem I want to double-check
> that reversing the commits (rather than, eg, reversing the changes in new commits) is the right way to go,
> before I push upstream. I know that this is a different situation than to problem-prone one of doing a reset
> and pushing that, but haven't pushed reversed commits and want to be sure. (This time I will wait for your
> reply rather than just going ahead.)

The right way is to say "git revert SHA1" for each of the commits you
want to revert.  This creates a commit with reverse diffs.  Then "git
push" the result.

Thanks.