Github pages

Now this site is on github pages.
I had already repos on github for some time and trusted it - only private repos I keep on other places. But mostly I was missing some features a bplaced so now the move. Mostly I like that I can now post new content via git so I just need to transfer new posts and not the whole site. That now the site is https secured is a nice boon.

It took me some time to reconfigure my hugo blog for the pages here’s what I learnt:

• the name of the repo must be username.github.io - at first I had the impression username was enough, and also some guides would describe how to use gitlab instead.
• for me github insists publishing the master branch - so I had to juggle around, the previous master got renamed to hugo doing: git branch -m master hugo. I had already ignored the public directory, and had to delete the original master from online and recreate it empty - but I think one can streamline that. Then added the master using worktree in public: git worktree add -B master public origin/master
• the url in config.toml should be https://username.github.io/ - notice the trailing slash.
• I can then use the hugo command to build my site. And publish using cd public; git add . ; git commit -am pub; git push; cd .. - I’m in fish - many others use && instead.
• I tried putting my binaries under git lfs - so far it seems to work. I will write back in case anything shows up.
• It takes a minute till the change shows up. So I need to be patient.

So there we are on github now…