Commit a file to a Different Branch Without Checkout

Question

Is it possible to commit a file in a git branch with out checking out that branch? If so how?

Essentially I want to be able to save a file in my github pages branch

Answer 1

While there is currently no single command to do this, there are at least two other options.

1. You could use the github api to create the commit. This post details creating a commit in a github repo.

2. Create github pages as a submodule.

3. Use a series of plumbing commands to create the commit.
   The git book has a description of plumbing commands used to create a commit

note: the command is now mktree not mk-tree