Locally building and pushing jekyll site to github pages

Question

I am using the gem "jekyll-assets" on my site and it fails when pushing to github pages. I have read that a way around this is to build the site locally, which builds just fine, and then push it to github pages. The examples of people doing this, however, are using a project repository and they are pushing the site to a "gh-pages" branch. I am doing this site for myself and the setup for this suggests using the master branch under the repo .github.io. How do I push a local jekyl build to a site with this setup?

Answer 1

You need to push only the content of the _site folder. Nothing else, nor the folder itself.

If you are setting up a project site, push the content to the gh-pages branch. If it's your user website, the repo must be named username.github.io and your site root needs to be the master branch.

Let me know how it goes! :)

Hope to have helped!