Github page-only repository

Github offers Github Pages that let you host web pages on Github.

You create these by adding a branch to git called gh-pages, and this is often in addition to the default branch master.

I just needed the gh-pages branch. So thanks to YJL, here’s the simplest way to do it.

1. Create the repositoryon github.
2. Create your local repository and git commitinto it.
3. Type git push -u origin master:gh-pages
4. In .git/config, under the [remote "origin"] section, add push = +refs/heads/master:refs/heads/gh-pages

The magic is the last :gh-pages.