commit

Etymology

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

1. (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
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.
   Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
4. (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
   to commit murder
   to commit a series of heinous crimes
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.)
   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.
   […] 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. 2005-07-31, Teri Karush Rogers, quoting Julie Friedman, “Fear of Committing?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
6. (transitive, computing, databases) 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, 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.
   […]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 [4 March 1804], 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.
10. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
11. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

noun

1. (computing, databases) 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 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.