Quickly create a Github Pages repo

github_pages_repo.sh

# What is your GitHub username? & your project name? Change with your own
GITHUB_USERNAME="ssaunier"
PROJECT_NAME="minesweep"

# We can create GitHub repo from the terminal, with https://github.com/github/hub
# It's really convinient. You can download it with:
brew install hub

# Say you want to work on a minesweep, create the repo:
mkdir -p ~/code/$GITHUB_USERNAME/$PROJECT_NAME && cd $_

# Initialize the git repo and change the branch to gh-pages right away
git init
git checkout -b gh-pages

# Create the GitHub repo. At first usage, it will prompt you for your credentials
hub create

# We will notify GitHub Pages that this is not a Jekyll repo
touch .nojekyll
echo "Hello world" > index.html
git add .
git commit -m "This is not a Jekyll repo"
git push -u origin gh-pages

# You can visualize the GitHub repo with:
hub browse

# Wait a few minutes, and you should see "Hello world" at:
open http://$GITHUB_USERNAME.github.io/$PROJECT_NAME

# Of course, you can set it to answer to a specific CNAME (Then it would drop the
# project name automatically after the slash)
echo "$PROJECT_NAME.saunier.me" > CNAME # Change with your own URL
git add CNAME
git commit -m "Adding CNAME"
git push origin gh-pages

# Now go to OVH / Gandi / your DNS provider and record a CNAME from
# "$PROJECT_NAME" to "$GITHUB_USERNAME.github.io." (trailing dot is *SO* important)