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Gabriel
Gabriel

Reputation: 42389

git - Remove master files and folders from gh-pages

I've setup a Github repo where I've committed some code to the master branch. I then created a page with Github's own page creator, which generated a new branch alongside the master branch called gh-pages. I've pushed lots of commits to both branches by now.

The issue I have is that when I switch from master to gh-pages I can see files and folders from master that shouldn't be showing (I think) in the gh-pages branch.

I've read here that to stop that from happening the following commands should be used within the gh-pages branch:

git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/gh-pages
rm .git/index
git clean -fdx

I'm not sure what those commands do so I don't want to use them until I'm sure they won't screw up neither branch and that they actually will fix the issue I have with files and folders from master showing in gh-pages.

Could you explain what these commands do and whether they are suited to fix the issue mentioned above?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1076

Answers (1)

TooShyToAsk
TooShyToAsk

Reputation: 194

You are telling that HEAD refs/heads/gh-pages is your current working branch by creating a symlink called HEAD with the refs/heads/gh-pages value

git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/gh-pages

then you are removing the index file of git

rm .git/index

finally you are cleaning your untracked files

git clean -fdx

Upvotes: 4

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