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General Discussion Using Your Own Domain Name

Carlos Enrique Castañeda Gutiérrez
Carlos Enrique Castañeda Gutiérrez
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Posted by Carlos Enrique Castañeda Gutiérrez
Carlos Enrique Castañeda Gutiérrez
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Why CNAME was commited on Master Branch?

Hello everybody:

I'm assuming the web on the video is a "project website" not "user website". I was wondering why the CNAME was commited to the Master branch when the "live" branch is "gh-pages". It shoudn't make more sense to commited on gh-pages because how the domain provider read the CNAME if this file is in a non-live branch (Master)?

Thanks

3 Answers

Unsubscribed User
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I know this is a little old but in this video it is a user website, not a project website.

You can see at 2:45 the repository name of guilh.github.io

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Dear Carlos Enrique Castañeda Gutiérrez,
You're assuming right. And Tom Hughes, has answered it already. In fact, I wondered about it for a while too. But then, I realized that this time the instructor, Guil, was not using GitHub pages for a repo, rather a user website. And earlier in the course, he said that "user websites" don't need to be on a gh pages branch. They are meant to be in their "master" branch. That's why the CNAME was committed to the master branch. When you'll be working on a project site, you'll be committing to the gh-pages. Hope that clears the matter up a bit more. Happy Coding :smile:

Dilip Agheda
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You don't have to commit on your gh-pages branch even for your project pages. It is merely a convention that was followed in the video to prevent all changes to the master going live.

On github repo, if you go to settings menu option, you will see section for git hub pages. you can select your master branch there if you want to and no need to even create any branches. I have done the same as well.