Setting up a Nanoc site on GitHub Pages

[Pito Salas]

I know you have detailed instructions but there are various things I don't understand. And, it's not working for me.

To start what does `git clone . output` do?

Also from what directory do I do the `git remote add origin repo-url` command?

And what is the repo-url, is it my ssh command?

Also from what directory do I do the `nanoc deploy` command?

And do I ever do a git commit + push again?

Thanks!


Pito Salas
Faculty, Computer Science
Brandeis University

[Denis Defreyne]

Hey Pito,

I’ll answer inline:

To start what does `git clone . output` do? 

It creates `output` as a repository, cloned from the current working directory. (The way I think of it is `git clone` being analogous to `cp` in terms of the arguments it takes: “from” and “to”.). You could also clone it with something like `git clone g...@github.com:mygithubusername/myrepo.git output`, but the former is more convenient.

Also from what directory do I do the `git  remote add origin repo-url` command? 

This is from within the output directory (which was created by the `git clone . output` command earlier). The code snippets (on https://nanoc.ws/doc/deploying/#with-git) have a prompt that shows both the current directory (before the @) as well as the git branch (after the @, before the %).

I agree that this isn’t obvious, and I’m also not formatting the prompts quite consistently I admit, so I’ll see about improving that.

And what is the repo-url, is it my ssh command?

This is e.g. `g...@github.com:mygithubusername/myrepo.git`.

(This is not technically a URL, but Git calls it a URL.)

Also from what directory do I do the `nanoc deploy` command? 

You’d run this from your site’s directory, not from the output/ directory.

And do I ever do a git commit + push again?

No need — `nanoc deploy` will take care of that!

Hope this helps,

Denis Defreyne

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[Pito Salas]

Hi Denis

Yes, it did, Thanks! Some new git and gh magic I didn't know :)

I assume I treat the main (Nanoc-created) directory in the normal way and version control it with git add/git commit/git push etc.

Pito Salas
Faculty, Computer Science
Brandeis University

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