From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:37:43 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Mar 2012, #02; Sun, 4)
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Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> writes:

> Hey,
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> David Barr <davidbarr@google.com> writes:
>>
>>> GitHub has a different mechanism for publishing project content.
>>> They expect a special named branch, gh-pages.
>>
>> Hrm, so if they add a mechanism to name what branch to show the
>> content from, I could set it from gh-pages to master and we will
>> have an online HTML pages.  Nice.
>>
>> I wonder if they can also do historical documents (e.g. manual pages
>> for release 1.7.0) that way.
>
> So, gh-pages is how you can publish project pages for a project.  If
> you don't want to push to the gh-pages branch, you can just name the
> repository 'gitster.github.com' and push to the master branch there
> and that static content will be available at that url.

I do not mind pushing to gh-pages branch but I just wanted to avoid
an extra branch appearing in the repository where people expect to
find "master" branch full of html pages, which would surprise the
users.

> I am also working on parsing the content automatically and hosting it,
> including all older versions, under the git-scm.com domain. - also
> making it searchable and whatnot, FYI.  This won't be done for a
> little while, but I am working on it.

Thanks.