GitHub Pages allows each user to have one User Site (maybe a home page) and unlimited Project Sites.
When you set up your User Site, you must name the repo [username].github.io
(where [username]
is your GitHub username), and the URL is by default:
http://[username].github.io/
Any changes made to the master
branch in your [username].github.io
repo are uploaded to your User Site.
When you set up a Project Site, you can name the repo anything you want (let's call it [projname]
). The URL is by default:
http://[username].github.io/[projname]
Any changes made to the gh-pages
branch in your [projname]
repo are uploaded to the Project Site.
My question is, what if in your User Site repository, you coincidentally have a folder that has the same name as your Project Site repository?
For example, say you have a file index.html
inside a folder temp/
in your User Site repo bob.github.io
. Then that page would be hosted online at
http://bob.github.io/temp/index.html
Now say you create a Project Site with repo name temp
. In that repo, you have a file called index.html
. Then when you push it to thegh-pages
branch, would it be hosted online at
http://bob.github.io/temp/index.html
?