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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>svn commit</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion" /><link rel="up" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.c" title="svn Subcommands" /><link rel="prev" href="svn.ref.svn.c.cleanup.html" title="svn cleanup" /><link rel="next" href="svn.ref.svn.c.copy.html" title="svn copy" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">svn commit</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.ref.svn.c.cleanup.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"><span class="command"><strong>svn</strong></span> Subcommands</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.ref.svn.c.copy.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="svn.ref.svn.c.commit"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><a id="id415534" class="indexterm"></a><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>svn commit — Send changes from your working copy to the repository.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id415560"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="programlisting">svn commit [PATH...]</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id415572"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>Send changes from your working copy to the
repository. If you do not supply a log message with your
commit by using either the <code class="option">--file</code> or
<code class="option">--message</code> option,
<span class="command"><strong>svn</strong></span> will launch your editor for you
to compose a commit message. See the
<code class="literal">editor-cmd</code> section in <a class="xref" href="svn.advanced.confarea.html#svn.advanced.confarea.opts.config" title="Config">the section called “Config”</a>.</p><p><span class="command"><strong>svn commit</strong></span> will send any lock
tokens that it finds and will release locks on all
<em class="replaceable"><code>PATHS</code></em> committed (recursively),
unless <code class="option">--no-unlock</code> is passed.</p><div class="tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Tip</h3><p>If you begin a commit and Subversion launches your
editor to compose the commit message, you can still
abort without committing your changes. If you want to
cancel your commit, just quit your editor without saving
your commit message and Subversion will prompt you to
either abort the commit, continue with no message, or
edit the message again.</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id415636"></a><h2>Alternate Names</h2><p>ci (short for “<span class="quote">check in</span>”; not
“<span class="quote">co</span>”, which is short for
“<span class="quote">checkout</span>”)</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id415657"></a><h2>Changes</h2><p>Working copy, repository</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id415667"></a><h2>Accesses Repository</h2><p>Yes</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id415677"></a><h2>Options</h2><pre class="screen">
--message (-m) TEXT
--file (-F) FILE
--quiet (-q)
--no-unlock
--targets FILENAME
--force-log
--depth ARG
--with-revprop ARG
--username USER
--password PASS
--no-auth-cache
--non-interactive
--encoding ENC
--config-dir DIR
--changelist ARG
--keep-changelist
</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id415691"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>Commit a simple modification to a file with the
commit message on the command line and an implicit
target of your current directory
(“<span class="quote"><code class="filename">.</code></span>”):</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn commit -m "added howto section."
Sending a
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 3.
</pre><p>Commit a modification to the file
<code class="filename">foo.c</code> (explicitly specified on the
command line) with the commit message in a file named
<code class="literal">msg</code>:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn commit -F msg foo.c
Sending foo.c
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 5.
</pre><p>If you want to use a file that's under version
control for your commit message with
<code class="option">--file</code>, you need to pass the
<code class="option">--force-log</code> option:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn commit --file file_under_vc.txt foo.c
svn: The log message file is under version control
svn: Log message file is a versioned file; use '--force-log' to override
$ svn commit --force-log --file file_under_vc.txt foo.c
Sending foo.c
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 6.
</pre><p>To commit a file scheduled for deletion:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn commit -m "removed file 'c'."
Deleting c
Committed revision 7.
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