---
title: "create commit record"
method: POST
path: "/repositories/{repository}/commits"
tags: ["internal"]
---

# create commit record

`POST /repositories/{repository}/commits`

## Request body

- CommitRecordCreation
  - `commit_id` string, required — id of the commit record
  - `version` integer, required — version of the commit record
  - `committer` string, required — committer of the commit record
  - `message` string, required — message of the commit record
  - `metarange_id` string, required — metarange_id of the commit record
  - `creation_date` integer, required — Unix Epoch in seconds
  - `parents` string[], required — parents of the commit record
  - `metadata` object — metadata of the commit record
  - `generation` integer, required — generation of the commit record
  - `force` boolean

## Response `204`

commit record created

## Other responses

- `400` — Validation Error
- `401` — Unauthorized
- `403` — Forbidden
- `404` — Resource Not Found
- `429` — too many requests
- `default` — Internal Server Error

## Changes

- **2025-07-29** `27799ffec9a5` — 2 info
  - added the non-success response with the status `429`
  - removed the non-success response with the status `420`
- **2024-09-17** `3b10653a8013` — 2 info
  - added the non-success response with the status `420`
  - removed the non-success response with the status `429`

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/treeverse/apis/lakefs-api/changes/repositories/:repository/commits/post.md)

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