commit

noun

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verb

Add some changes to a repository in version control
feel bound to complete or accomplish some task or goal
commit a crime
pledge, designate to

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪt/

noun

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.

The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
“To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects[…]”
“Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.”
The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.

verb

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
“Commit these numbers to memory.”
“Bid him farwell, commit him to the Graue,”
To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
“and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us”
To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
“Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!”
To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
“to commit murder”
“to commit a series of heinous crimes”
To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
“to commit oneself to a certain action”
“to commit to a relationship”
To make a set of changes permanent.
“When all SQL statements in the transaction are executed successfully, the transaction is committed and all the work that the SQL statements performed is made a permanent part of the database.”
“We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […]”
To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
“For, in theſe ſtrifes, and on ſuch perſons, were as wretched to affect a victorie, as it is vnhappy to be committed with them.”
“[…]and from hence ( as when Fire and Water are committed together ) ariſeth a most troubleſome conflict.”
To confound.
“Harry whoſe tuneful and well meaſur'd Song / Firſt taught our Engliſh Muſick how to ſpan / Words with juſt note and accent, not to ſcan / With Midas Ears, committing ſhort and long;”
To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
“the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother[…].”
“[K]eepe thy words Iusſtice, ſweare not, commit not, with mans ſworne Spouſe;”
To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
“As a vaſt Herd of Cows in a rich Farmer's Yard, if, while they are milked, they hear their Calves at a Diſtance, lamenting the Robbery which is then committing, roar and bellow: So roared forth the Somerſetſhire Mob an Hallaloo, made up of almoſt as many Squawls, Screams, and other different Sounds, as there were Perſons, or indeed Paſſions, among them: […]”