Etymology

committer

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Today it means: A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository. Full definition →

English commit ← Middle English committen ← Latin committō
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  1. Latincommittō
  2. Middle Englishcommitten
  3. Englishcommit
  4. English todaycommitter

From commit + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.