On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:51 AM, trans<[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm sorry but the Pages feature is just god awful annoying. These are
> my issues with it:
>
> 1) Conceptually branches are intended for copies of one's project to
> be worked on, not a wholly different set of files.

You should let the Git project know. They're unaware and do something
similar to gh-pages.

http://github.com/git/git/tree/html

> 2) It is customary to keep one's website files is a subdirectory or
> one's project.

It was also customary to branch rarely in Subversion. But now we have Git.

> 3) Per custom, my site pages are already there, in the subdirectory.
> So why not just serve them up? Why waste storage space by storing
> another copy of them in a separate branch?

Luckily if the files are the same, no space is wasted.

> 4) Whenever one has to do something mind-numbing like <a href="http://
> github.com/drnic/sake-tasks/blob/
> 3152ac2eca99b97fa3bd4a2951a52064d7bd961c/github/pages/
> migrate_website.sake">this</a> in order to get something to work as
> one would expect, then you know there's room for improvement.

I agree. Keeping your site in a gh-pages branch would eliminate the
need for this task.

> I'm not asking that you get rid of the whole gh-pages branch thing --
> clearly some people want it that way, but perhaps you could offer the
> subdirectory way as an alternative? Ideally have a property to specify
> which directory or branch, to find site pages.

We'll put it on the list.

Thanks,

-- 
Chris Wanstrath
http://github.com/defunkt

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