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Use commit
when you want to incorporate changes
from your working source files into the source
repository.
If you don’t specify particular files to commit, all of
the files in your working current directory are
examined. commit
is careful to change in the
repository only those files that you have really
changed. By default (or if you explicitly specify the
‘-R’ option), files in subdirectories are also
examined and committed if they have changed; you can
use the ‘-l’ option to limit commit
to the
current directory only.
commit
verifies that the selected files are up
to date with the current revisions in the source
repository; it will notify you, and exit without
committing, if any of the specified files must be made
current first with update
(see update).
commit
does not call the update
command
for you, but rather leaves that for you to do when the
time is right.
When all is well, an editor is invoked to allow you to
enter a log message that will be written to one or more
logging programs (see modules, and see loginfo)
and placed in the RCS file inside the
repository. This log message can be retrieved with the
log
command; See log. You can specify the
log message on the command line with the ‘-m
message’ option, and thus avoid the editor invocation,
or use the ‘-F file’ option to specify
that the argument file contains the log message.
• commit options: | commit options | |
• commit examples: | commit examples |
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