Apply multiple file updates in a single commit

[socsieng]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Each file that is updated by release-please has it's own commit. This is presumably because it is using the Contents API.

For example, the Contents API generates a git commit for each addition or change and uses the current time as the timestamp.

When one or two files are updated, this isn't as much of an issue, however, this is less than ideal once more files are updated (e.g. the addition of package-lock.json with #464).

Describe the solution you'd like

Ideally, all the updates related to the version number bump would be applied in a single commit. It looks like this could technically be achieved by using the Commits API.

Using the Commits API looks more complicated than the Contents API so I can understand if you don't think the increase in complexity is unjustified.

Describe alternatives you've considered

The alternative is to continue with individual commits and remember to merge the release pull request with the squash and merge option.

Additional context

Example of commits with three changes

[chingor13]

This was completed in #536 and released in v6.0.0. We now use the code-suggester library to create the commit/pull request.