THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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This must be done before cherry-picking the required commits from the master branch. It's also possible to hard reset the latest commit (the SNAPSHOT one), but keep the other intact, because you don't want to delete the previous RC tag.
Rollback
If you messed up something before publishing a release candidate, feel free to reset the branches to the commit before those "Prepared" commits. You can also delete the RC tag locally and remotely if needed.
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