gitpython: Command syntax for git commit

Question

with using gitpython module, I am writing python script to check git diff --> git add of all modified files one by one. At the end I want to commit all these changes, but I didn't find the exact syntax of the command.

I'm trying with below code, 'git add' works perfectly but 'git commit' gives error.

import git

repo = git.Repo(os.getcwd())
files = repo.git.diff(None, name_only=True)
for f in files.split('\n'):
    show_diff(f)
    repo.git.add(f)

repo.git.commit('test commit', author='[email protected]')

Here is the error I'm seeing, it seems the something is missing in cmd arguments.

In [10]: repo.git.commit("test commit", author="[email protected]")
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GitCommandError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-10-b4505b7c53c2> in <module>()
----> 1 repo.git.commit("test commit", author="[email protected]")

c:\python27\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.pyc in <lambda>(*args, **kwargs)
    421         if name[0] == '_':
    422             return LazyMixin.__getattr__(self, name)
--> 423         return lambda *args, **kwargs: self._call_process(name,    *args, **kwargs)
    424
    425     def set_persistent_git_options(self, **kwargs):

c:\python27\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.pyc in _call_process(self, method, *args, **kwargs)
    866         call.extend(args)
    867
--> 868         return self.execute(call, **_kwargs)
    869
    870     def _parse_object_header(self, header_line):

c:\python27\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.pyc in execute(self, command, istream, with_extended_output, with_exceptions, as_process, output_stream, stdout_as_string, kill_after_timeout, with_stdout, universal_newlines, shell, **subprocess_kwargs)
    684
    685         if with_exceptions and status != 0:
--> 686             raise GitCommandError(command, status, stderr_value, stdout_value)
    687
    688         if isinstance(stdout_value, bytes) and stdout_as_string:  # could also be output_stream

GitCommandError: Cmd('git') failed due to: exit code(1)
  cmdline: git commit [email protected] test commit
  stderr: 'error: pathspec 'test commit' did not match any file(s) known to      git.'

Answer 1

Resolved the issue, need to add "-m" flag in the commit command as below:

repo.git.commit('-m', 'test commit', author='[email protected]')