Keeping the history of gh-pages adds a lot of bloat when trying to clone the repository. The force_orphan option added pushes just one commit with no prior history to the gh-pages branch on every change, which should significantly reduce the size of the repository.
Keeping the history of gh-pages adds a lot of bloat when trying to clone the repository. The force_orphan option added pushes just one commit with no prior history to the gh-pages branch on every change, which should significantly reduce the size of the repository.