git branch: gh-pages

Question

I have a repo on GitHub. Recently I have discovered GitHub\'s pages and I want to use them.
I would like to create this new branch and then, when I need to, either commi

Answer 1

More recent versions of git have an alternative to the git symbolic-ref method that Chandru explained. This avoids having to use the lower level commands.

git checkout --orphan gh-pages
git rm -rf .

Answer 2

I use this

git push origin `git subtree split --prefix build`:$DEPLOY --force

You can see working version https://github.com/rofrol/closeyoureyesnow/blob/master/build_and_deploy.sh

Answer 3

You might find this tutorial useful:

Setup GitHub Pages "gh-pages" branch and "master" branch as subfolders of a parent project folder ("grandmaster").

To me this approach seems simpler then doing a git checkout gh-pages each time you want to edit your gh-pages content. Let me know what you think ^_^

Edit: I updated the tutorial link - thanks @Cawas. The old tutorial (not recommended) was https://gist.github.com/825950