github pages installed in a project as a blank branch, and a submodule and with a remote used to pull down shared template

gh-pages with template via git

#Create blank branch
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/gh-pages
rm .git/index
git clean -fdx
touch .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git commit -m "Initial Commit"

#Push to origin
git push origin gh-pages

#Add as submodule
git checkout master
git submodule add -b gh-pages #{repo} website
git commit -a -m "added website as submodule-link to gh-pages branch"
git push

#Merge from template
cd website
git remote add template #{template_repo}
git fetch template
git merge --squash template/master
git commit -m "Merged #{template_repo} master into gh-pages"

git push
cd ..
git add website #Never use trailing slash or it buggers the whole thing up
git commit -m "Updated website with jekyll_template"

#Hack away


#???
#Profit!