Update GitHub pages from the command line
npm install git-update-ghpagesUploads a directory to gh-pages. Perfect for use with Travis-CI deployments.
```
git-update-ghpages rstacruz/myproject _docs
`
==> cd /var/folders/7d/tmp.9dgEYWLD
==> git init
Initialized empty repository in /var/folders/7d/tmp.9dgEYWLD
==> git checkout -b gh-pages
Switch to a new branch 'gh-pages'
==> Copying contents from _docs
x index.html
x license.html
x contributing.html
==> git commit -m Update
[gh-pages 06829a94] Update
16 files changed, 16085 insertions(+)
==> git push https://github.com/rstacruz/myproject.git gh-pages
==> rm -rf /var/folders/7d/tmp.9dgEYWLD
==> Done.
`

You can use Travis to automatically deploy your static website to GitHub pages.
Generate a GitHub token. Travis will use this to push to your repository on your behalf. You can use any name, but you can call it _Travis CI_. Keep this token somewhere safe; you can use it for any of your repositories that will need git-update-ghpages deployments.
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Make sure Travis is already enabled on your repository. Go to your Travis's repo's settings page (https://travis-ci.org/user/repo/settings), and add your token there as GITHUB_TOKEN.
Be sure to turn off the "show this in build log" option.
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Alternatively, you can also use the Travis CLI tool to add this to your repo as a secure variable:
`sh`
travis encrypt GITHUB_TOKEN="your token here" --add
Add this to your .travis.yml manifest. This will make a build happen after your test, then a deployment right after that. uIn this example, we're deploying _docs to user/repo.
`yaml.travis.yml
node_js:
- '4'
env:
global:
- GIT_NAME: Travis CI
- GIT_EMAIL: nobody@nobody.org
- GITHUB_REPO: rstacruz/myproject
- GIT_SOURCE: docs
script:
- npm test # ...or whatever your test command is
- make build # ...or whatever your build command is
after_success:
- if [ "$TRAVIS_BRANCH" = "master" -a "$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST" = "false" ]; then npm install git-update-ghpages && ./node_modules/.bin/git-update-ghpages -e; fi
`
If your project is a Node.js project, you can simplify this by adding git-update-ghpages to your devDependencies.
`sh`
npm install --save-dev --save-exact git-update-ghpages
`yaml``.travis.yml
after_success:
- if [ "$TRAVIS_BRANCH" = "master" -a "$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST" = "false" ]; then ./node_modules/.bin/git-update-ghpages -e; fi