Git add through python subprocess

You need to specify the working directory.

Functions Popen, call, check_call, and check_output have a cwd keyword argument to do so, e.g.:

subprocess.call([gitPath] + dirList + ['add','.'], cwd='/home/me/workdir')

See also Specify working directory for popen

Other than using cwd Popen's argument, you could also use git's flag -C:

usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c name=value]
           [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
           [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
           [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]
           <command> [<args>]

So that it should be something like

subprocess.Popen('git -C <path>'...)