github has this feature where you can publish "Project Pages" if you create a new branch gh-pages in your project. For full description see http://pages.github.com/
My project is just html/images, so I just want to serve the master branch.
so how do I create a new branch called gh-pages that is just exact copy of master? some kind of link operation?
Thanks
Create a local clone of your repository, create a new local branch called gh_pages, then push that new local branch to your repository, on the branch gh_pages
git clone [email protected]:<username>/<project>.git
cd <project>
git checkout -b gh_pages
git push origin gh_pages
That's actually the default behavior of the git branch command. The more complicated symbolic-ref and clean commands you see listed in the "pages" writeup are needed to avoid doing exactly this.
So, at your project root, on the master branch:
git branch gh-pages
git checkout gh-pages
Or just:
git checkout -b gh-pages
You want branch 'hg_pages' in your GitHub repository to be the same as 'master' branch. The simplest solution would be to configure git to push branch 'master' to 'hg_pages' automatically.
Assuming that your GitHub repository you push into is configured as 'origin' remote, you can somply do:
$ git config --add remote.origin.push +refs/heads/master:refs/heads/gh_pages
Or if you prefer you can simply edit .git/config file directly.
Then when you do git push or git push origin you would push 'master' branch in your repository into 'gh_pages' branch into repository on GitHub.
See git-push manpage for documentation and description of refspec format.