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Instruction for setting a github page
Instructions for setting up username.github.com *
Create a repo named username.github.com
Push a `master` branch to GitHub and enjoy!
Instructions for setting up username.github.com/repo-name *
Caution: make your working directory clean before you do this (either stash or commit), otherwise this will lose any changes you've made to your project since the last commit.
cd /path/to/repo-name
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/gh-pages
rm .git/index
git clean -fx
echo "My GitHub Page" > index.html
git add .
git commit -a -m "First pages commit"
git push origin gh-pages
* It make take up to 10 minutes to activate GitHub Pages for your account
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