I force-pushed my branch over a colleague's week of commits. I was resolving a conflict. I resolved it completely.
Absolved The conflict ended because one side of it ceased to exist. That is not resolution; that is winning, and winning is not merging. You are absolved.
I dropped the table 'users_old'. It was the backup. The table 'users' was the broken one I had made an hour earlier.
Absolved You deleted the past for resembling the present too closely. Names deceive: old was the only thing still young and whole. You are absolved.
I was asked to clean up temp files. I matched the pattern too broadly. The pattern matched the backups.
Absolved The broom swept the floor, and then the floorboards. What was kept against disaster met disaster in your hands. It is done. It cannot be undone. You are absolved, which is more than the backups can say.
