| 11 | Committing Changes |
Once you are happy with the changes you have made, you should commit them back into the repository. Changes committed into the repository are available to everyone else on your project and are stored securely on your Subversion server. Committing changes is sometimes also known as checking in to the repository; these two terms mean the same thing and can be used interchangeably.
Any time you commit a change into the repository, Subversion will ask for a commit message. Your changes, along with the commit message, then become a revision within the Subversion repository. You should always try to make your commit messages meaningful—they can be used later by someone else (or more often yourself!) to figure out the intent ...
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