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## commit--Check files into the repository

- Version 1.3 Synopsis: commit [-lnR] [-m 'log_message' | -f file] [-r revision] [files...]
- Version 1.3.1 Synopsis: commit [-lnRf] [-m 'log_message' | -F file] [-r revision] [files...]
- Requires: working directory, repository.
- Changes: repository.
- Synonym: ci

Warning: The ``-f file'` option will probably be renamed to ``-F file'`, and ``-f'` will be given a new behavior in future releases of CVS.

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 section update--Bring work tree in sync with repository). `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 section The modules file, and see section Loginfo) and placed in the RCS history file inside the repository. This log message can be retrieved with the `log` command; See section log--Print out log information for files. 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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