I am trying to follow https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook but there is some assumed knowledge that clearly I don\'t have. I\'ve used GitHub for some time but I\'ve still got a
Regarding the gh-pages branch, you are correct, it can be found here:
gh-pages
https://github.com/GitbookIO/git/tree/gh-pages
It does indeed have an index.html file in the root directory:
index.html
https://github.com/GitbookIO/git/blob/gh-pages/index.html