git: put a branch in a subdirectory

Question

I have a git repository (at github.com) with two branches: master and gh-pages. I would like to have the gh-pages branch in a subdirectory, so that I don\'t need to switch branc

Answer 1

I've tried the git subtree trick, but it requires that master have all the gh-pages content committed to it, which is not ideal in this case. Much better and simpler is to

1. Create a new directory at ./repo/gh-pages/
2. Put a line on .gitignore for that (gh-pages)
3. cd gh-pages/, git init and git checkout -b gh-pages, creating an independent git remote there

You can also git clone directly to ./gh-pages/ with only the branch you want.