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How to stage and commit all changes with Git in Python

Run git add -A and git commit from Python using subprocess to automate staging and committing all file changes in one step.

git subprocess automation
Python 
import subprocess
from pathlib import Path

def stage_and_commit_all(commit_message: str) -> None:
    """Stage all changes and create a commit with the given message."""
    repo_root = Path.cwd()
    if not (repo_root / ".git").exists():
        raise RuntimeError("Not inside a Git repository")

    subprocess.run([…
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