I have created a simple web site for GitHub Pages. The source of the site is in the \"master\" branch and the generated web site (what I want to see published) is under the \"gh
FWIW, this is the setup I used for publishing a personal page (i.e. https://user-name.github.io
) using Next.js and gh-pages:
develop
)next build && next export
.nojekyll
marker file in the export directory: touch out/.nojekyll
gh-pages -t -b master -d out
You can bundle these commands in package.json
to get a convenient yarn deploy
command:
scripts: {
...
"build": "next build",
"export": "yarn run build && next export",
"deploy": "yarn export && touch out/.nojekyll && gh-pages -t -b master -d out"
...
Ok so if you are using angular-cli-ghpages it will by default create a new branch gh-pages
and publish to it.
Now as a starter, like me, if you are using https://user-name.github.io/ and you want your app to be published from the master branch of your user-name.github.io
you can follow the below steps.
Make a production ready build using
ng build --prod --base-href "/user-name.github.io/"
Deploy to the master using angular-cli-ghpages
using
angular-cli-ghpages --branch=master
Hope this helps.
Personal or organization sites are built from master
. gh-pages
branch is used to build sites for projects.
As far as I can see, you're using https://user-name.github.io/ url, this is a personal one, so that's why master
branch is the default one.
See the documentation page
If your site is a User or Organization Page that has a repository named
<username>.github.io
or<orgname>.github.io
, you cannot publish your site's source files from different locations. User and Organization Pages that have this type of repository name are only published from the master branch.
So the answer is No, you can not change it. You'll have to adjust your workflow and keep development in another branch (let's call it development
) and merge to master
when you're ready to publish.
UPD: It's 2020 out there, so as of July 31st GitHub Pages allow you to configure any branch to act as an old master