# Maintaining an html branch
2 messages from 2010-05-25 to 2010-05-25. Participants: Christos Trochalakis, Jonathan Nieder.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23896
## Christos Trochalakis, 2010-05-25 06:43
Subject: Maintaining an html branch
Message-ID:
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTimMVn8fMVBmfNi4vR3kk3cXF2gq0Y9Ij5w3cl15%40mail.gmail.com
```
Hello,
I would like to maintain an html branch for my repo, containing files
under my '_site/' dir that is not version controlled.
Below is a first draft that works, but as I am not really familiar
with git plumbing, I'd appreciate any comments on a better way or
style to to write it.
#!bash
jekyll --no-auto # build the static website on _site/ dir
rm .git/html.index
export GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/html.index
git add -f _site
tree_id=$(git write-tree --prefix=_site/)
new_commit=$(echo "New website"|git commit-tree $tree_id -p html)
git update-ref html $new_commit
rm .git/html.index
Thanks,
Chris
```
## Jonathan Nieder, 2010-05-25 19:21
Subject: Re: Maintaining an html branch
Message-ID: <20100525192111.GA7279@progeny.tock>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20100525192111.GA7279%40progeny.tock
In-Reply-To:
```
Hi Christos,
Christos Trochalakis wrote:
> I would like to maintain an html branch for my repo, containing files
> under my '_site/' dir that is not version controlled.
[...]
> rm .git/html.index
> export GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/html.index
[...]
Looks reasonable. Way I suggest a simpler way?
If your goal is to publish an html branch with the rest of your
branches, I would recommend using a separate local repository that
pushes to the same remote repository[1].
If the goal is to stay under draconian disk quotas by not maintaining
two local repositories, one with the web site checked out all the
time, I suggest using contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir.
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
[1] See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/142831/focus=142865
for an example.
```