Commit vs Conform - What's the difference?
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To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
* Bible, Psalms xxxvii. 5
* Shakespeare
To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
* Clarendon
To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
* Bible, Exodus xx. 4
To join a contest; to match; followed by with .
To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; for example to commit oneself to a certain action'', ''to commit oneself to doing something''. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without ''oneself etc.)http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_speech/v074/74.3shapiro.html
* Junius
* Marshall
(obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
* Milton
(obsolete) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
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* Shakespeare
(computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
* 1988 , Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop
* 2009 , Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git
(intransitive, of persons, often followed by to) To act in accordance with expectations; to behave in the manner of others, especially as a result of social pressure.
* 1822 , , Peveril of the Peak , ch. 1:
* 1839 , , The Voyage of the Beagle , ch. 4:
To be in accordance with a set of specifications or regulations, or with a policy or guideline.
* 1919 , , The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit , ch. 11:
* 2006 22 Dec., "
To make similar in form or nature; to make suitable for a purpose; to adapt.
* , "Vanbrugh's House" in The Poems of Jonathan Swift (1910 edition):
* 1836 , , Nature , ch. 6:
As verbs the difference between commit and conform
is that commit is to give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto while conform is to act in accordance with expectations; to behave in the manner of others, especially as a result of social pressure.As a noun commit
is the act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.commit
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(committ)- Commit thy way unto the Lord.
- Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave.
- These two were committed .
- Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.
- Any sudden assent to the proposalmight possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
- committing short and long [quantities]
- the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother.
- Commit not with man's sworn spouse.
Usage notes
To , entrust, consign. These words have in common the idea of transferring from one's self to the care and custody of another. Commit'' is the widest term, and may express only the general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may have the special sense of entrusting with or without limitations, as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison. To ''entrust'' denotes the act of committing to the exercise of confidence or trust; as, to entrust a friend with the care of a child, or with a secret. To ''consign is a more formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.Derived terms
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Noun
(en noun)- To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits , the server provides semaphore objects...
- Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.
conform
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Verb
(en verb)- [H]e had a dispensation for conforming in outward observances to the Protestant faith.
- [B]y conforming to the dress and habits of the Gauchos, he has obtained an unbounded popularity in the country.
- In height and breadth it conformed to the prescribed measurements laid down by the rules of the contest.
Judge Cuts Amount of Vioxx Award," New York Times (retrieved 7 June 2011):
- A judge in a Texas widow’s lawsuit over the Merck drug Vioxx reduced a $32 million jury award to about $7.75 million on Thursday so that it conformed to state law.
- There is a worm by Phoebus bred,
- By leaves of mulberry is fed,
- Which unprovided where to dwell,
- Conforms itself to weave a cell.
- The sensual man conforms' thoughts to things; the poet ' conforms things to his thoughts.