commit

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

Noun

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[…] - 1988, Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International...
- Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state. - 2009, Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git:
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.

Origin

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.

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, - c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio),...
- 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, […], →OCLC, Psalms 37:5:
To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
- and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us - 1641, A Great Conspiracy by the Papiſts in the Kingdome of Ireland, Diſcovered by the Lords Juſtices, and Counſell at Dublin, and Proclaimed There...
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 commit suicide
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
- 8 March, 1769, Junius, letter to the Duke of Grafton You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.
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. - 2005, Thearon Willis,...
- We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […] - 2014, Wlodzimierz Gajda, Git Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 86:
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. - 1616, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Poetaster. [To the Reader.]”, in The Workes of...
- […]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 [1804 March 4], Lord Castlereagh, quotee, “part II, chapter VII”, in Sidney James Owen, editor, Selection from the...
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; - 1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XIII....
To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
- 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 […], →OCLC:
- [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...
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...