Deploying the static website to GitHub.

Assuming you already created a github.io repository following the instruction from this link https://pages.github.com/ and already install the 'Git<https://git-scm.com/downloads>'_ software according to your operating system. Given the original 'github_deploy<https://getnikola.com/handbook.html#deploying-to-github>'_ tutorial, I will explain more where you might get confused.

Initialize a git repository in your Nikola source directory by running:

git init.
git remote add origin git@github.com:user/repository.git

• user : your Github username, for example, "deadbeef"
• repository : your github.io repository, for example, deadbeef.github.io.git

so the command should be:

git remote add origin git@github.com:deadbeef/deadbeef.github.io.git

Then, setup conf.py:

GITHUB_SOURCE_BRANCH = 'src'
GITHUB_DEPLOY_BRANCH = 'master'
GITHUB_REMOTE_NAME = 'origin'
GITHUB_COMMIT_SOURCE = True

• 'src' means your Nikola source branch's name is src
• 'master' means your compiled static website branch's name is master

Create a .gitignore file containing:

cache
.doit.db
__pycache__
output

Finally, deploying:

nikola github_deploy

first time it will ask you to log in to your github account. Then, you should be able to access you website https://deadbeef.github.io