Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

Name

commit

Synopsis

svn commit [path ...]

Send changes from your working copy to the repository. If you don’t supply a log message with your commit by using either the --file or --message option, svn starts your editor for you to compose a commit message.

Tip

If you begin a commit and Subversion starts your editor to compose the commit message, you can still abort without committing your changes. To cancel your commit, just quit your editor without saving your commit message. Subversion prompts you to either abort the commit, continue with no message, or edit the message again.

Alternate Names:	ci (short for “check in,” not co, which is short for “check out”)
Changes:	Working copy, repository
Accesses Repository:	Yes

Options

--config-dir dir	--non-interactive
--encoding enc	--non-recursive (-N)
--filefile, -Ffile	--password pass
--force-log	--quiet (-q)
--messagetext, -mtext	--targets filename
--no-auth-cache	--username user

Examples

Commit a simple modification to a file with the commit message on the command line and an implicit target of your current directory (“.”):

    $ svn 
 commit -m "added howto section."
    Sending        a
    Transmitting file data .
    Committed revision 3.

To commit a file scheduled for deletion:

    $ svn commit -m "removed file 'c'."
    Deleting       c
    Committed revision 7.