How to stop Google indexing my Github repository

Question

I use Github to store the text of one of my web sites, but the problem is Google indexing the text in Github as well. So the same text will show up both on my site and on Gi

Answer 1

The https://github.com/robots.txt file of GitHub allows the indexing of the blobs in the 'master' branch, but restricts all other branches. So if you don't have a 'master' branch, Google is not supposed to index your pages.

How to remove the 'master' branch:

In your clone create a new branch - let's call it 'main' and push it to GitHub

git checkout -b main
git push -u origin main

On GitHub change the default branch (see in the Settings section of your repository) or here https://github.com/blog/421-pick-your-default-branch

Then remove the master branch from your clone and from GitHub:

git branch -d master
git push origin :master

Get other people who might have already forked your repository to do the same.

Alternatively, if you'd like to financially support GitHub, you can go private https://help.github.com/articles/making-a-public-repository-private