commit

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To give in trust

   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,
   • Commit thy way vnto the Lord: trust also in him, and he shall bring it to passe.
2. 2

   To imprison

   To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

   • and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us
3. 3

   To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental…

   To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.

   • Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
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   1. 4

      To do (something bad)

      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
   2. 5

      To pledge or bind

      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.
   3. 6

      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: […]
   4. 7

      To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version…

      To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.

   5. 8

      To enter into a contest

      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.
      • […]whilst it commits us in hostility with the three greatest military powers of the empire.
   6. 9

      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;
   7. 10

      To commit an offence

      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;
   8. 11

      To be committed or perpetrated

      To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

   9. 12

      The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change

      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.
   10. 13

       The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.

   11. 14

       A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter…

       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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