GitHub Pages Publish

GitHub pages allows a GitHub repository to function as a static web-server thing.

Certain branches can be marked as the source for a static webserver … and more?

… whatevs; I’m not worried about “more” so here’s how to dump a static website into a GitHub repo …

1. create/find a repository on GitHub
   • I created game-SpaceShips at git@github.com:g-pechorin/game-SpaceShips.git
2. clone it
   • git clone git@github.com:g-pechorin/game-SpaceShips.git
3. overwrite the source contents (but not the .git/ folder) with your site’s content
4. commit git commit -m "some stuffff or what"
5. push! git push origin master your site will update in a few minutes
   • this one is was http://g-pechorin.github.io/game-SpaceShips/
     • … which doesn’t seem to work anymore … hmm …
   • your site will be different

2020-04-09

Updated with instructions to “get around” the GitHub issue when overwriting old versions of a site.

2017-01-19

Initial post.