Github: Mirroring gh-pages to master

Question

I\'m developing a jQuery plugin that\'s being hosting on GitHub. It has a demo included of which I\'m manually copying and pushing to the branch gh-pages, what

Answer 1

commit and push to master..

then :

git checkout gh-pages  // -> go to gh-pages branch
git rebase master // bring gh-pages up to date with master
git push origin gh-pages // commit the changes
git checkout master // return to the master branch

Answer 2

Do not do what denbuzze suggests above!! The + (plus sign) in the push makes it quietly accept non-fastforward updates. I found out the hard way that this can irrevocably cause work to be lost by leading to dangling commits. Simply removing the plus signs makes this a safer approach.

push = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/gh-pages
push = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master

now instead of causing a force update this will cause a warning & pull suggestion

To https://github.com/someuser/repo.git
 ! [rejected]        master -> gh-pages (fetch first)
 ! [rejected]        master -> master (fetch first)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/someuser/repo.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do
hint: not have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing
hint: to the same ref. You may want to first integrate the remote changes
hint: (e.g., 'git pull ...') before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.

Answer 3

OR you can just use the cmd below, this will push your local master branch to gh-pages master branch. git push -f origin master:gh-pages

Answer 4

Add the following 2 lines to the [remote "origin"] section of .git/config:

push = +refs/heads/master:refs/heads/gh-pages
push = +refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master

Every time you push it will automatically push master to gh-pages as well. I'm using this for the jQuery Lifestream project.

Answer 5

git checkout gh-pages
git merge master
git push origin gh-pages

Answer 6

I personally like to wrap this in an alias:

alias gpogh="git checkout gh-pages && git merge master && git push origin gh-pages && git checkout -"

This mirrors your master to gh-pages, pushes to github, then switches back the previous branch you were working on.