Copying gh-pages branch from one repository to another repository

Question

My GitHub org is https://github.com/Obrary . There, I have 100s of open designs for products. Each is a project. I want each to have a GitHub page for the project.

I created a simple GitHub page for one of the projects. See http://obrary.github.io/Alex-Chair/ . The page is created so that I can add it to any projects gh-pages branch and it will work for the new project. To see that in action, http://obrary.github.io/Alexey-Surfboard-Rack/ .

Now I want to copy the gh-pages branch from /Alex-Chair to all my other projects. In going through the help and examples, I've seen a lot of information about copying branches with a repo or copying repos in whole. But I haven't found examples on how to copy a branch from repo A to repo B.

Here's the current command line that I've got. But it fails because the clone command only works at the repo level (or so I think).

    git checkout --orphan gh-pages
    git rm --cached -r .
    git clone --bare https://github.com/Obrary/Alex-Chair/tree/gh-pages

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this:

First make sure there is a gh-pages branch in the repo you want to push to.

From the Alex-Chair gh-pages branch:

git push -f [new repo url] gh-pages

Or, add a new remote like in this answer : (using Obrary/memes as an example)

git remote add memes https://github.com/Obrary/memes
git push --force memes gh-pages

You want to be careful with force , but in this case what you want to do (completely override the upstream with local files) is exactly what force will do.

Hope that helps!