Pygithub: [Example] Full example of commit multiple file

well, finally I end up with the full process... hopefully will share later...

Here is a full example abstracted from my real usage:
I get a lot hints from this https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub/issues/863#issuecomment-517927446

To commit to master branch

import github
g = github.Github(base_url="https://git.mycompany.com/api/v3",login_or_token="mytoken")
repo = g.get_repo('myorg/myrepo')
# you can read file content into blob, here just use str for example
blob1 = repo.create_git_blob("file-content", "utf-8")
element1 = github.InputGitTreeElement(path="path-in-repo.ext", mode='100644', type='blob', sha=blob1.sha)
blob2 = repo.create_git_blob("file-content2", "utf-8")
element2 = github.InputGitTreeElement(path="folder/path-in-repo.ext", mode='100644', type='blob', sha=blob2.sha)
head_sha = repo.get_branch('master').commit.sha
base_tree = repo.get_git_tree(sha=head_sha)
tree = repo.create_git_tree([element1, element2], base_tree)
parent = repo.get_git_commit(sha=head_sha)
commit = repo.create_git_commit("commit_message", tree, [parent])
master_refs = self.github_repo.get_git_ref('heads/master')
master_ref.edit(sha=commit.sha)

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I wanted to do something similar (i.e. commit multiple files at once), but this time in a branch. Below is working code (let me know if it can be optimised though)

import github
g = github.Github("mytoken")
repo = g.get_repo('myorg/myrepo')

blob1 = repo.create_git_blob("file-content", "utf-8")
element1 = github.InputGitTreeElement(path="path-in-repo.ext", mode='100644', type='blob', sha=blob1.sha)
blob2 = repo.create_git_blob("file-content2", "utf-8")
element2 = github.InputGitTreeElement(path="folder/path-in-repo.ext", mode='100644', type='blob', sha=blob2.sha)

head_sha = repo.get_branch('master').commit.sha

# everything above is identical to @xpdable 
# but here I create the branch
branch = repo.create_git_ref(ref=f"refs/heads/branch-name", sha=head_sha)
branch_sha = repo.get_branch("branch-name").commit.sha

# similar to @xpdable but replacing head_sha with branch_sha
base_tree = repo.get_git_tree(sha=branch_sha)
tree = repo.create_git_tree([configuration_element, stats_element], base_tree)
parent = repo.get_git_commit(sha=branch_sha)
commit = repo.create_git_commit("commit_message", tree, [parent])
branch_refs = repo.get_git_ref("heads/branch-name")
branch_refs.edit(sha=commit.sha)

# optional : open a PR with the new branch
repo.create_pull(title="PR title", body="PR body", base="master", head="branch-name")

Any advice on how to delete files as part of such multiple file commits?

Some posts talk about creating new trees with references to paths with null sha's, or modifying existing trees incl. ideas about looping and finding all references to the deleted blobs?

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23637961/how-do-i-mark-a-file-as-deleted-in-a-tree-using-the-github-api
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55786299/delete-multiple-files-from-github-api
• https://gist.github.com/gjtorikian/5208350