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Mary Fernandez
Mary Fernandez
510 Points
Posted by Mary Fernandez
Mary Fernandez
510 Points

Unclear about where to upload changes to GitHub

Whenever I want to upload changes to my jekyll blog (such as publishing or editing a post, adding pages, etc.), do I always push them to master or do I push to the gh-pages branch?

1 Answer

Alexander Revell
Alexander Revell
5,782 Points

Generally for proper git flow it's a good idea to:

pull from master into your branch on your local machine (this checks for changes on master since you last committed your branch), then

push your local branch to github (normally called origin branch-name) then

make a pull request into master from github.

But if it's just you doing the editing and you're confident about the changes you're making then you can push straight to master. Most likely you'll be displaying what's in master on your blog, not on any other branch, so it's what's in master that gets seen.

But I haven't used jekyll so there may be some differences that I'm not treating correctly. I hope some of this is useful