Definition of "commit"

commit

/kəˈmɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present commits, present participle committing, simple past and past participle committed
1. (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
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  Bid him farwell, commit him to the Graue,
  c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iii], page 52, column 1
  Commit thy way vnto the Lord: trust also in him, and he shall bring it to passe.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms 37:5
  If we take in hand any Volume; of Divinity or School Metaphyſics, for Inſtance; let us aſk, Does it contain any abſtract Reaſonings concerning Quantity or Number? No. Does it contain any experimental Reaſonings concerning Matters of Fact or Exiſtence? No. Commit it then to the Flames: For it can contain nothing but Sophiſtry and Illuſion.
  1748, [David Hume], “Essay XII. Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy.”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], part III, page 256
2. (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
3. (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
4. (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  Quotations
  Thou shalt not commit adultery.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus 20:4
5. (transitive, intransitive) 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.)
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  You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.
  8 March, 1769, Junius, letter to the Duke of Grafton
  Any sudden assent to the proposal […] might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
  1803, John Marshall, The Life of George Washington
  […] the perennial bachelor and “the single woman who has never married, who is afraid to commit to an apartment, because she's afraid if she somehow commits to a studio or one-bedroom then she's never going to get married,” said Julie Friedman, a senior associate broker at Bellmarc Realty.
  2005 July 31, Teri Karush Rogers, quoting Julie Friedman, “Fear of Committing?”, in The New York Times‎
6. (transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.
  Quotations
  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.
  2005, Thearon Willis, Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Databases, John Wiley & Sons, page 343
  We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […]
  2014, Wlodzimierz Gajda, Git Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Apress, page 86
7. (transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
  Quotations
  For, in theſe ſtrifes, and on ſuch perſons, were as wretched to affect a victorie, as it is vnhappy to be committed with them.
  1616, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Poetaster. [To the Reader.]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, page 348
  […] and from hence ( as when Fire and Water are committed together ) ariſeth a most troubleſome conflict.
  1677, Richard Gilpin, “part II, chapter VII”, in Dæmonologia Sacra‎, London: J. D., page 313
  […] whilst it commits us in hostility with the three greatest military powers of the empire.
  1877 , Lord Castlereagh, quotee, “part II, chapter VII”, in Sidney James Owen, editor, Selection from the Despatches, Treaties, and Other Papers of the Marquess Wellesley […] ‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 263
9. (transitive, obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
  Quotations
  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;
  1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires.”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], page 57
10. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  Quotations
  the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother […].
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]
  [K]eepe thy words Iusſtice, ſweare not, commit not, with mans ſworne Spouſe;
  c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iv], pages 297–298, column 2
11. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
  Quotations
  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: […]
  1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], book IV, page 51
noun
plural commits
1. (computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
  Quotations
  To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects […]
  1988, Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop
  Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.
  2009, Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git
2. (programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
3. (informal, sports, chiefly US) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.

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