These are the steps I took to create the repo in my command line

gh-pages-demo

Sams-MacBook-Air:Desktop samrose$ git clone [email protected]:samrose/examplerepo.git
Cloning into examplerepo...
warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository.
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ nano readme.md
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ git add .
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ git commit -am 'readme'
[master (root-commit) 35f5148] readme
 Committer: Sam Rose <[email protected]>
Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:

    git config --global user.name "Your Name"
    git config --global user.email [email protected]

After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:

    git commit --amend --reset-author

 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 readme.md
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ git push origin master
Counting objects: 3, done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 242 bytes, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To [email protected]:samrose/examplerepo.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ git branch gh-pages
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ git checkout gh-pages
Switched to branch 'gh-pages'
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ ls
readme.md
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ cp -r ../githubiverse-template-gh-pages/ .
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ ls
_config.yml	_includes	_layouts	css		img		index.md	js		readme.md
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ git add .
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ git commit -am 'adding githubiverse'
[gh-pages 6f96677] adding githubiverse
 Committer: Sam Rose <[email protected]>
Your name and email address were configured automatically based
on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate.
You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:

    git config --global user.name "Your Name"
    git config --global user.email [email protected]

After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with:

    git commit --amend --reset-author

 36 files changed, 9355 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 .gitignore
 create mode 100755 _config.yml
 create mode 100755 _includes/footer.html
 create mode 100755 _includes/header.html
 create mode 100755 _layouts/default.html
 create mode 100755 css/bootstrap/bootstrap-responsive.css
 create mode 100755 css/bootstrap/bootstrap.css
 create mode 100755 css/githubiverse/default.css
 create mode 100755 css/lightbox/lightbox.css
 create mode 100755 img/bootstrap/glyphicons-halflings-white.png
 create mode 100755 img/bootstrap/glyphicons-halflings.png
 create mode 100755 img/favicon.ico
 create mode 100755 img/lightbox/bg-checker.png
 create mode 100755 img/lightbox/box.png
 create mode 100755 img/lightbox/bullet.gif
 create mode 100755 img/lightbox/close.png
 create mode 100755 img/lightbox/favicon.gif
 create mode 100755 img/lightbox/loading.gif
 create mode 100755 img/lightbox/next.png
 create mode 100755 img/lightbox/prev.png
 create mode 100755 img/lightbox/speech-bubbles.png
 create mode 100755 index.md
 create mode 100755 js/bootstrap/bootstrap.min.js
 create mode 100755 js/github/gh3.min.js
 create mode 100755 js/humane.min.js
 create mode 100755 js/lightbox/lightbox.min.js
 create mode 100755 js/showdown.min.js
 create mode 100755 js/thingiview/Base64Binary.js
 create mode 100755 js/thingiview/Three.js
 create mode 100755 js/thingiview/binaryReader.js
 create mode 100755 js/thingiview/plane.js
 create mode 100755 js/thingiview/stats.js
 create mode 100755 js/thingiview/thingiloader.js
 create mode 100755 js/thingiview/thingiview.js
 create mode 100755 js/underscore/underscore.min.js
 rewrite readme.md (100%)
Sams-MacBook-Air:examplerepo samrose$ git push origin gh-pages
Counting objects: 55, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (44/44), done.
Writing objects: 100% (53/53), 130.19 KiB, done.
Total 53 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
To [email protected]:samrose/examplerepo.git
 * [new branch]      gh-pages -> gh-pages