Auto commiting changes in a repository

Question

we're trying to autocommit changes on legacy directories, where the people don't want to use something like version control (sigh).

I'm using gitpython to commit these changes every night:

repo = git.Repo(local_directory)

changed_files = [change.a_blob.path for change in repo.index.diff(None)]
if changed_files or repo.untracked_files:

   if changed_files:
      repo.git.add(update=True)

   if repo.untracked_files:
      repo.git.add(repo.untracked_files)

   repo.git.commit(message='Auto committed')
   repo.remotes.origin.push(repo.head)

Sometimes commit fails with "'git commit --message=Auto committed' returned with exit code 1" - which I can't reproduce

Is there something I did wrong? I've read that maybe I should use repo.index to make a commit?

Best, Christopher

Answer 1

You're absolutely right you'll need to use repo.index to make a commit. Here's a working sample from my script using GitPython (which incidentally helps us with version control)

repo = Repo(repo_dir)
index = repo.index

And then my commit_version function:

def commit_version(requested_version, commit_msg, index, version_file):
    """Commits version to index"""

    print "Committing: ", requested_version

    index.add([version_file])
    index.commit(commit_msg)

So you could just pass in "Auto committed" as your commit_msg. Hope this helps!