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Author: aduh95

lib/promote_release.js

@@ -150,9 +150,12 @@ export default class ReleasePromotion extends Session {
     const appliedCleanly = await this.cherryPickToDefaultBranch();
 
     // Ensure `node_version.h`'s `NODE_VERSION_IS_RELEASE` bit is not updated
-    await forceRunAsync('git',
-      ['checkout', appliedCleanly ? 'HEAD^' : 'HEAD', '--', 'src/node_version.h'],
-      { ignoreFailure: false });
+    await forceRunAsync('git', ['checkout',
+      appliedCleanly
+        ? 'HEAD^' // In the absence of conflict, the top of the remote branch is the commit before.
+        : 'HEAD', // In case of conflict, HEAD is still the top of the remove branch.
+      '--', 'src/node_version.h'],
+    { ignoreFailure: false });
 
     if (appliedCleanly) {
       // There were no conflicts, we have to amend the commit to revert the