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alshedivat / al-folio

A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
https://alshedivat.github.io/al-folio/
MIT License
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Editing the content #58

Closed jenniferisasi closed 5 years ago

jenniferisasi commented 5 years ago

First, thanks for creating this beautiful theme!

I am familiar with jekyll and github and I was looking into migrating my current website to this theme. However, when I uploaded them to GitHub to deploy/publish the site, I saw that all was converted into different files on a new _site directory.

Now my question is, how could I edit my website in the future? Usually I would edit files in their folders and push them to Github, but I am not sure if it will do the same with the _site folder that I have never worked with before.

Thanks in advance!

alshedivat commented 5 years ago

Good question! If you are running the deploy script in the user mode (i.e., you specify the -u flag) it does the following steps:

1) Copies your website sources to the source branch. 2) Builds the website generating the files in _site. 3) Pushes only the files from _site to master, deleting everything else (pushing _site to master is necessary due to the way github serving works).

To edit the website, just switch to source in your local repo, edit files, commit changes, and then run bin/deploy again -- it'll regenerate the _site for you again and push your changes to master.

jenniferisasi commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the prompt response @alshedivat! Perfect. It makes sense with the branches at I also noticed that they worked differently than what I am used to. I will try to follow this instructions for future edits.