commit all untracked changes, including deleted files

[nschloe]

For committing all untracked changes (git commit -a) in GitPython, you have to add all dirty files to an index

index.add([diff.a_blob.path for diff in index.diff(None)])

and commit that (according to this answer on the mailing list from 2011).

Unfortunately, this doesn't work if there are deleted files. In this case, one gets

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'path/to/deleted/file.txt'

Any way for dealing with this?

[Byron]

IndexFile.add(...) is not suited for possibly non-existing resources due to the behaviour you experienced already.
In your case, I believe it would be best to just call git directly like this: repo.git.add(update=True). repo is assumed to be the Repo instance from which you previously obtained the index as well.

Next time you have a question, you might want to consider using stackoverflow with the GitPython tag as this will drastically reduce the time it takes to receive a suitable answer.

If this works for you, please feel free to close this issue.

[nschloe]

Is there a corresponding piece of documentation that you could point me to?

[Byron]

There is a part of the tutorial dedicated to using git directly: http://gitpython.readthedocs.org/en/stable/tutorial.html#using-git-directly.

Using the git command's porcelain is the recommended way of doing high-level tasks in GitPython.