Why is checking in files called a 'commit'?

Posted by Kjetil Klaussen on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Kjetil Klaussen
Published on 2012-09-20T10:18:29Z Indexed on 2012/09/20 15:38 UTC
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The act of checking in files in a source control repository like git, mercurial or svn, is called a commit. Does anyone know the reason behind calling it a commit instead of just check in?

English is not my mother tongue, so it might be some linguistic I don't quite get her, but what I'm I actually commiting to? (Hopefully I'm not commiting a crime, but you'll never know.)

Is it in the meaning of "to consign for preservation"? Is it related to transactions (commit at the end of a transaction)?

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