Example Makefile publishing to gh-pages

Makefile

# Publishes the html counterpart to index.md to the repo's gh-pages branch root
dist/%.html: %.md
	pandoc -f markdown -t html $< > $@

build: dist/index.html

clean: 
	rm -rf dist/*

publish: build
	git add .
	git commit
	git push origin master
	git checkout gh-pages
	git checkout master -- dist
	git mv -f dist/* ./
	git rm -rf dist
	git add .
	git commit
	git push origin gh-pages
	git checkout master

.PHONY: build clean