Sometimes you want to have a subdirectory on the master branch be the root directory of a repository’s gh-pages branch. This is useful for things like sites developed with Yeoman, or if you have a Jekyll site contained in the master branch alongside the rest of your code.
For the sake of this example, let’s pretend the subfolder containing your site is named dist.
Remove the dist directory from the project’s .gitignore file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).
Description: Setup GitHub Pages "gh-pages" branch and "master" branch as subfolders of a parent project folder ("grandmaster").
Author: Chris Jacob @_chrisjacob
Tutorial (Gist): https://gist.github.com/833223
Setup GitHub Pages "gh-pages" branch as a subfolder within the "master" project on your local checkout.
If you plan on switching between different branches (e.g. git checkout master-experiment
then revert back with git checkout master) you will loose your child folder from this tutorial (because it's in your
.gitignore and is not part of your master branch).
