v class="paragraph">
<p>As a verb: The action of storing a new snapshot of the project&#8217;s
state in the Git history, by creating a new commit representing the current
state of the <a href="#def_index">index</a> and advancing <a href="#def_HEAD">HEAD</a>
to point at the new commit.</p>
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</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1"><a id="def_commit_object"></a>commit object</dt>
<dd>
<p>An <a href="#def_object">object</a> which contains the information about a
particular <a href="#def_revision">revision</a>, such as 