How to push a git ignored folder to a subtree branch?

Question

I have a yeoman angular app and by default the dist folder came ignored. So when I try this: git subtree push --prefix dist origin gh-pages it fails because it is ignored. I don't want to push the dist folder to the master branch, I only want to push it to the gh-pages branch.

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

I ended up writing a script for this. It creates a temporary commit with an updated .gitignore file with lines containing gh-pages removed.

After pushing the commit is discarded. The if statement is there so you don't accidentally lose work.

STATUS="$(git status)"

if [[ $STATUS == *"nothing to commit, working tree clean"* ]]
then
    sed -i "" '/gh-pages/d' ./.gitignore
    git add .
    git commit -m "Edit .gitignore to publish"
    git push origin `git subtree split --prefix gh-pages master`:gh-pages --force
    git reset HEAD~
    git checkout .gitignore
else
    echo "Need clean working directory to publish"
fi

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^{Note that before v2.9.1, the status was nothing to commit, working directory clean}