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Discussion on: Deploying a Next.js app to GitHub Pages

 
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Nicole Zonnenberg

Thank you! And one more quick question. For updating the website, would you recommend branching off of master/main and then merging main into gh-pages? Or branching of gh-pages and merging into gh-pages and then main?

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James Wallis • Edited

So you should branch off master/main and then merge back into master/main.
Once you've merged your changes, Travis will build and export your Next.js application and then push the new HTML (out directory) onto your gh-pages branch - it uses a force push to completely overwrite the branch.

You shouldn't ever need to touch the gh-pages branch.