How to use jekyll plugins with GitHub Pages

Posted on August 4, 2014  •  1 minutes  • 93 words

Very cool idea by @randymorris. Basically, actual source will now live in the source branch and generated content (_site folder) will be in master instead.

1. Make changes in the source branch
2. Build and test the site locally
3. Commit changes to source branch
4. git publish-website which consists of the following steps

git branch -D master
git checkout -b master
git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter _site/ -f
git checkout source
git push --all origin

This is actually similar to the approach: develope locally and rsync _site folder with your VPS/host public folder but works with GitHub Pages.