I recently played around with the Jekyll/Poole/Lanyon theme for a new blog. At first, I linked my domain jonathancharleslee.com to my github pages site at jonathancharleslee.github.io
When I update files locally, I can update site features and posts - however, when I push to github it won't update on jonathancharleslee.github.io
Any help is much appreciated.
You're on a user/organisation repository (username.github.io). This type of repository needs you to push in master branch, not in gh-pages.
See Github Pages doc
You should be working and making all your changes on the development branch, then pushing ONLY your built files to the master branch, which is what Github Pages will publish.
There's step-by-step instructions on how to do this in this posting:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/44296933/7669275
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I made a GitHub action in order to build and deploy my docusaurus site on a GitHub page following the docusaurus documentation.
When I make a modification in one of my project file, the GitHub action works well, the pipeline works, the branch master has been updated and the gh-pages branch too, but when I refresh my GitHub page, the modification is not displayed.
Does someone know what could be the issue? I saw that the issue could come from the use of GITHUB_TOKEN?
I've deployed an app on Netlify through continuous deployment by linking a single Github repo. I had previously been making commits to the project locally, and my contributions were being tracked for this repo. However, now that I've linked the repo to Netlify, it seems no commits or contributions I make are picked up by Github. The commits can still be seen in the Github repo and commits are updated, but the contributions no longer are tracked despite them working previously.
For some context I've checked the Github help page on contributions:
https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/why-are-my-contributions-not-showing-up-on-my-profile
And cannot see what rule I've violated; I'm working on this on my own, it's a standalone repo, etc etc. considering they were being tracked before for the same repo, I'm confused as to what has changed now that Netlify has been integrated.
Any help/guidance appreciated
So it had nothing to do with Netlify, but my work Mac did not have me globally installed as the commit author with my email. After that, all previous authors were wrong as being my local computer email.
To get around this I followed this tutorial to replace all previous commits with the correct author: How do I change the author and committer name/email for multiple commits?
I've been able to publish GitHub sites under my domain on GitHub Pages from the master branch without issue, however in the docs it says to use a gh-pages branch or master/docs for publishing projects.
I also have a repository for my homepage index.html file/assets, where I link to each of the published GitHub repositories (which are published to my domain name.com/repo-name).
Why have I been able to publish from the master branch? Is there any reason to publish from the gh-pages branch or master/docs instead for publishing project repositories?
GitHub Pages can publish from any of those sources: gh-pages branch, master/docs, or just from the repo itself. It's more of a preference which route you use.
For example, Jekyll is publishing using the master/docs option. The rest of the repo outside of the docs folder is for the actual Jekyll code. One possible reason is that PR's with new features must also include documentation of that new feature. Otherwise, it won't get merged.
The gh-pages option means that code and documentation can be paced or managed differently. They live in the same repo, but the branches can grow at differing speeds.
In terms of technical differences, there's no technical costs/benefits to each option as far as I know. It's just how you want to organize your code and documentation.
Hope that helps!
GitHub requires user and organization sites to build from master, while project sites can build from gh-pages. If I understand correctly, you are publishing to your user site, i.e. yourusername.github.io.
Similar questions have been asked but I haven't been able to find my answer:
My site is fine locally and all the correct files seem to be on my GitHub, but my published site (https://username.github.io/project) is still only showing my first intitial push.
Can someone direct me to troubleshoot?
From "Configuring a publishing source for GitHub Pages"
make sure you have enabled GitHub Pages to publish your site from master or gh-pages
or that you are one a master branch, subfolder docs.
Then you might need to wait a minute or two before seeing those pages rendered.
There are a few similar questions but none of the solutions mentioned in the other questions could solve my issue.
I am using mkdocs to publish github pages. command I am using is mkdocs gh-deploy --clean
This has worked correctly in the past. But now suddenly after making a minor spelling change to one of the pages, the changes are not reflected in the git pages website. Note that in gh-pages branch I can see the changes were pushed correctly.
Shouldn't gh-pages branch be in sync with github pages website all the time ?
What am I missing here ?
//EDIT:
To say this problem in other words, It is a static site which is built using mkdocs. If gh-pages branch has all the changes (and it works fine locally), then shouldn't it update the github pages site automatically. As I understand there is no build process involved for static github pages site.