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Reputation: 13681

Git map directory to branch

I have repository blog:

blog
├─ master
│  └─ _site
│     └─ more folders
│
└─ gh-pages

I would like to map master:_site/ to the branch gh-pages. How would I do this using git?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2676

Answers (5)

Vinay Kumar Dudi
Vinay Kumar Dudi

Reputation: 137

Go to current directory, which you want to map to remote master, and then type below.

  1. git clone yourCloneURL

  2. copy ".git" folder from cloned dir to current direcotry

    cp yourClonedFolder/.git .

  3. delete clone folder

    rm -rf yourClonedFolder

  4. git add .

  5. git commit -m "Initial Commit"
  6. git push origin master

Upvotes: 0

jthill
jthill

Reputation: 60313

I believe this is fully paranoid:

#!/bin/sh
if ghpages=`git rev-parse -q --verify gh-pages`; then
        # there's already a branch, don't double-commit a tree
        committed=`git rev-parse -q --verify gh-pages^{tree}`
        current=`git rev-parse -q --verify master:_site`
        test x$current = x$committed && exit
fi
if commit=`git commit-tree ${ghpages:+-p $ghpages} -m 'updating gh-pages' master:_site`; then do
        git update-ref refs/heads/gh-pages $commit
fi

To hardwire the mapping as requested, put that in .git/hooks/post-commit and chmod +x it.

Upvotes: 2

0xcaff
0xcaff

Reputation: 13681

One way to do this is to initialize a git repository in _site.

cd blog

# populates _site
jekyll build
cd _site

# create git repository, add files and push
git init
git checkout -b gh-pages
git commit -am "message"
git remote add [email protected]:<user>/<repo>.git
git push origin gh-pages

Upvotes: 0

Mart&#237;n Schonaker
Mart&#237;n Schonaker

Reputation: 7305

From the wide variety of intimidating ways to perform this, I'd secretly (?) do this one for me (starting from the root of the local copy in the branch master): 

git checkout gh-pages
git checkout master -- _site/
mv _site/* .
rm -rf _site

Then commit and push changes:

git add .
git commit -m "Copied site from master"
git push origin gh-pages

Upvotes: 1

larsks
larsks

Reputation: 311740

You can add the gh-pages branch to the primary repository as a submodule. Something like this:

cd blog
git submodule add -b gh-pages <my-repository-url> master/_site

This assumes that the directory master/_site does not already exist. You will want to thoroughly read and understand the submodules section of the Git book. In particular, when you commit changes inside of your _site directory, the process will generally be:

cd master/_site
...edit some file...
git add some_file
git commit -m 'edit all the things'
cd ..
git commit -m 'edited some files' _site

Upvotes: 2

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