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I've softened my language a bit over the years from approximately that to something more like:

"Hey, I think commit abc0123 might have broken the build, and it looks like it was yours (link to build results). Would you mind looking at it?"

I give myself a little room for being wrong (sometimes I am), and it comes across as being less of an ass, to which people generally respond positively.




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