the svn help lists commit as a command with ci as a shortcut command. They are equivalent.
$ svn help usage: svn <subcommand> [options] [args] Subversion command-line client, version 1.8.11. Type 'svn help <subcommand>' for help on a specific subcommand. Type 'svn --version' to see the program version and RA modules or 'svn --version --quiet' to see just the version number. Most subcommands take file and/or directory arguments, recursing on the directories. If no arguments are supplied to such a command, it recurses on the current directory (inclusive) by default. Available subcommands: add blame (praise, annotate, ann) cat changelist (cl) checkout (co) cleanup commit (ci) copy (cp) ...
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