Ben Foxall benfoxall

Deploying a subfolder to GitHub Pages

Sometimes you want to have a subdirectory on the master branch be the root directory of a repository’s gh-pages branch. This is useful for things like sites developed with Yeoman, or if you have a Jekyll site contained in the master branch alongside the rest of your code.

For the sake of this example, let’s pretend the subfolder containing your site is named dist.

Step 1

Remove the dist directory from the project’s .gitignore file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).

	var fs = require('fs'),
	http = require('http'),
	https = require('https'),
	httpProxy = require('http-proxy');

	var options = {
	https: {
	key: fs.readFileSync('key.pem', 'utf8'),
	cert: fs.readFileSync('cert.pem', 'utf8')
	}

	/**
	* Converts an RGB color value to HSL. Conversion formula
	* adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_color_space.
	* Assumes r, g, and b are contained in the set [0, 255] and
	* returns h, s, and l in the set [0, 1].
	*
	* @param Number r The red color value
	* @param Number g The green color value
	* @param Number b The blue color value
	* @return Array The HSL representation

	// http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
	// http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/12/20/requestanimationframe-for-smart-er-animating

	// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel

	// MIT license

	(function() {
	var lastTime = 0;
	var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];