Jekyll is a great CMS for developers and GitHub Pages is a great host to store your Jekyll sites. There is just one problem, GitHub runs Jekyll in safe mode, which means you can't use plugins. One thing you can do is building the Jekyll website locally and then push to GitHub.
Alexandre Rademaker found a solution to do this easially, which is quite usefull: "GitHub Pages and Jekyll plugins" After reading this I thought, that can be done easier!
Git provides a way to have aliases of bash commands. You can do this by adding items to the alias key of your configuration. For this, you can add this locally by adding this lines to your %PROJECT_ROOT%/.git/config file:
[alias]
publish = "!f() { git checkout master && git merge source && clear && echo '[BUILD]' && jekyll && sass css/wouterj.scss css/wouterj.min.css --style compressed && echo && echo '[COMMIT]' && git add -A && git add -f css/wouterj.min.css && git commit -m 'Build website' && echo && echo '[PUSH]' && git push github master source && git checkout --; }; f"
That looks like a very long alias. Let's explain it:
publish The name of the alias, you can run this by using `git publish`
"!f() { ...; }; f" Group this all in a sh function
..1.. && ..2.. Run `..1..` and then `..2..`
git checkout master Go to the master branch
git merge source Merge the source branch (this is the
branch you work on locally)
clear clear the terminal
echo '[BUILD]' echo a heading
jekyll build the site
sass css/wouterj.scss css/wouterj.min.css --style compressed generate sass file
echo echo a new line
echo '[COMMIT]' echo a heading
git add -A add all files, including deleted files
git add -f css/wouterj.min.css add the generate CSS file, because I
normally ignore these in my .gitignore
file
git commit -m 'Build website' create build commit
echo echo a new line
echo '[PUSH]' echo a heading
git push github master source push the master and source branches
to github (or whatever your remote is)
git checkout -- go back to the previous branch
As you can see, some things are just repository specific. I recommend you to change commands, add your own commands and remove commands.
When you set up the alias, you can run git publish to run everything:
$ git publish
[BUILD]
Configuration from e:/wouter/web/wamp/www/wouterj.github.com/_config.yml
Building site: e:/wouter/web/wamp/www/wouterj.github.com -> e:/wouter/web/wamp/www/wouterj.github.com/_site
Successfully generated site: e:/wouter/web/wamp/www/wouterj.github.com -> e:/wouter/web/wamp/www/wouterj.github.com/_site
[COMMIT]
[master 998a254] Build website
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 css/wouterj.min.css
[PUSH]
Password for 'https://WouterJ@github.com':
Counting objects: 14, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done.
Writing objects: 100% (10/10), 5.01 KiB, done.
Total 10 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0)
To https://WouterJ@github.com/WouterJ/wouterj.github.com.git
998a254..3af9b92 master -> master
2e7ef6f..35234bc source -> source