Commit vs Request - What's the difference?
commit | request |
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.
*, II.12:
* 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
Act of (l).
* Shakespeare
A formal (l) requesting something.
of being sought after.
* Sir W. Temple
(obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
* Bible, Psalms cvi. 15
As verbs the difference between commit and request
is that commit is while request is to express the need or desire for.As a noun request is
act of (l).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.
request
English
Noun
(en noun)- I will marry her, sir, at your request .
- Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.
- He gave them their request .