How to Use a Windows Bat File to Schedule, Git Add, Commit and Push to GitHub

Making your life easier by automatising your workflow.

Say you want a Windows batch file to automatically run Git to add, commit, and push to GitHub — for example, if the script it runs is a web scraper that you want to run at regular intervals, pushing the data it collects to GitHub automatically.

This assumes a working Git installation, a local project already linked to your GitHub account, and that you’ve followed this post up to Step 2, so you already have a batch file scheduled to run a Python script.

Adding Git commands to your batch file

Change the batch file from this:

"<Path to python.exe>" "<Path to my.py>"

to this:

"<Path to python.exe>" "<Path to my.py>"

git add .
git commit -m 'scheduled commit'
git push

This won’t work if there are no changes to commit, so a more robust version is:

"<Path to python.exe>" "<Path to my.py>"

git add --all
git diff-index --quiet HEAD || git commit -m "scheduled commit"
git push

Here, git add --all stages the entire working tree, and the following line commits only if Git detects a change (git diff-index --quiet HEAD exits non-zero when there’s a difference against HEAD).

If Git isn’t on your PATH, replace git with the full path, e.g. "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe".

A more complete example

Putting it together, with a timeout to give the file system a moment before committing:

"C:\Users\<Your Name>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38\python.exe" "C:\Users\<Your Name>\Desktop\my.py"

timeout /t 5

"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" add --all
"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" diff-index --quiet HEAD || git commit -m "scheduled commit"
"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" push

Now the scheduled task from the Windows Scheduler post will also keep a Git repository in sync automatically.