ahmed-bhs

Auto-deploying built products to gh-pages with Travis

This is a set up for projects which want to check in only their source files, but have their gh-pages branch automatically updated with some compiled output every time they push.

Create a compile script

You want a script that does a local compile to e.g. an out/ directory. Let's call this compile.sh for our purposes, but for your project it might be npm build or gulp make-docs or anything similar.

The out/ directory should contain everything you want deployed to gh-pages. That almost always includes an index.html.

ahmed-bhs

Auto-Deploying via Travis CI

Because Travis CI can automatically execute scripts after successfully (or unsuccessfully!) executing tests, it is an obvious choice for a deployment tool. In order to deploy to a Git repository on a remote server, the process generally is as follows:

• Set up SSH keys
• Add the server's copy of the repository as a Git remote
• Push to the remote
• SSH into the server and execute any installation/compilation/miscellaneous commands

Before even touching .travis.yml...

Users

0xjac

The repository for the assignment is public and Github does not allow the creation of private forks for public repositories.

The correct way of creating a private frok by duplicating the repo is documented here.

For this assignment the commands are:

1. Create a bare clone of the repository. (This is temporary and will be removed so just do it wherever.)

git clone --bare [email protected]:usi-systems/easytrace.git