COMMIT

Commit

In computer science and data management, a commit is the making of a set of tentative changes permanent. A popular usage is at the end of a transaction. A commit is an act of committing.

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commit

Noun

  1. The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.

Verb

  1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
  2. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
  3. To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  4. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
  5. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; for example to commit oneself to a certain action, to commit oneself to doing something. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
  6. To confound.
  7. To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.


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