Synopsis

svn commit [PATH...]

Description

Send changes from your working copy to the repository. If you do not supply a log message with your commit by using either the --file (-F) or --message (-m) option, svn will launch your editor for you to compose a commit message. See the editor-cmd list entry in the section called “Config”.

svn commit will send any lock tokens that it finds and will release locks on all PATHs committed (recursively) unless --no-unlock is passed.

Alternate names

ci (short for “check in”; not co, which is an alias for the checkout subcommand)

Changes

Working copy; repository

Accesses repository

Yes

Options

--changelist ARG
--depth ARG
--editor-cmd CMD
--encoding ENC
--file (-F) FILENAME
--force-log
--keep-changelists
--message (-m) MESSAGE
--no-unlock
--quiet (-q)
--targets FILENAME
--with-revprop ARG

Examples

Commit a simple modification to a file with the commit message on the command line and an implicit target of your current directory (“.”):

$ svn commit -m "added howto section."
Sending        a
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 3.

Commit a modification to the file foo.c (explicitly specified on the command line) with the commit message in a file named msg:

$ svn commit -F msg foo.c
Sending        foo.c
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 5.

If you want to use a file that's under version control for your commit message with --file (-F), you need to pass the --force-log option:

$ svn commit -F 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 -F file_under_vc.txt foo.c
Sending        foo.c
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 6.

To commit a file scheduled for deletion:

$ svn commit -m "removed file 'c'."
Deleting       c

Committed revision 7.