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Development Tools Creating a Project Pages Site

Aakash Srivastav
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Github branches

What are default and protected branch on Github? Is here "gh-pages" is a default branch and "master" is protected branch? Please elaborate.

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Grace Kelly
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Grace Kelly
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The default branch is your main branch. Here the default branch is your master branch. A protected branch is a branch that has a number of protections in place for example, commits cannot be forced pushed to it or it cannot be deleted. In this scenario gh-pagesis a branch that you can push changes that you would like to appear on your github page :)

Aakash Srivastav
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Aakash Srivastav
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So a "protected branch" is apart from these two branches? Actually I have my my "master branch" as the proctected branch. Is that right?