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yojimbo87
yojimbo87

Reputation: 68353

Are Github pages created automatically in the fork of a repo which has a gh-pages branch?

Are github pages within my account created automatically when I fork a repo which already includes gh-pages branch?

Upvotes: 41

Views: 11549

Answers (7)

Tomi
Tomi

Reputation: 1

You would have to publish it afresh from your forked repo directory Run:

git push origin main

Upvotes: 0

Steve Bennett
Steve Bennett

Reputation: 126445

Forking a repository within Github is not sufficient by itself to trigger the creation of the Github Pages.

Either of these two things will work:

  1. Edit and save any page using the Github interface. For example, modify the README.md file, even just adding a space.

  2. Make any kind of git push to the gh-pages branch. As others have suggested, a trivial non-change you can make is:

    git push -f origin origin/gh-pages^:gh-pages
git push origin origin/gh-pages:gh-pages

This force-pushes the penultimate commit to be the gh-pages HEAD, then fixes it.

Upvotes: 5

Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com
Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com

Reputation: 383728

An elegant approach:

git push -f origin gh-pages^:gh-pages
git push origin gh-pages:gh-pages

git push origin master might not be good because if there might already be something on master. The above should always work, as it just wobbles the remote branch back and forward.

Taken from: Pushing without committing , whose solutions are also solutions to this question.

Upvotes: 23

thSoft
thSoft

Reputation: 22670

No, after you fork a repo, you have to publish it again. To do this, run the following commands on a local clone:

git push -f origin origin/gh-pages^:gh-pages
git push origin origin/gh-pages:gh-pages

This triggers the publisher hook twice, but you don't have to commit anything.

Upvotes: 0

prusswan
prusswan

Reputation: 7101

Renaming the forked repository would work too.

Upvotes: 1

user2959760
user2959760

Reputation: 516

After you fork a github page repo, you can change any file on github page and commit it, your web site will appear without using git.

Upvotes: 5

yojimbo87
yojimbo87

Reputation: 68353

There needs to be at least one push to trigger a page build so by doing a git push origin master, I got the page to rebuild.

Upvotes: 49

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