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Sync to a sub-directory in a Github repo

January 17, 2022 at 8:22 pm #6792

[anonymous]

Is there a way to sync publii blog to a sub-directory in a Github repo?

Say the git repo already has another website in the root folder, which I don’t want to override. I create a blog/ directory and set publii to sync with this “blog/” sub-directory only. is it possible?

January 30, 2022 at 3:26 pm #6842

[anonymous]

Hi,

I think that the only solution can be using something like submodules in GIT: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9035895/how-do-i-add-a-submodule-to-a-sub-directory and put the blog into separate github repository which will be used as a submodule in your main repository.

I did not test such solution – it is just an idea to check 🙂

February 7, 2022 at 5:45 pm #6887

[anonymous]

Thanks so much Tomasz! I am gonna test it today and report how it goes to help others! thanks for the suggestion!

February 8, 2022 at 6:45 am #6888
[anonymous]
Confirmed that submodule works.

After publishing the site to the submodule repo, I just need to run
```
github update submodule
```
from the main repo to update the blog.
February 10, 2022 at 6:19 pm #6894
[anonymous]
correction, the command should be
```
git submodule update --remote
```
February 19, 2022 at 4:01 am #6943

[anonymous]

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February 19, 2022 at 4:48 am #6944
[anonymous]
@onion I followed the information on this page: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules

Steps:
- Main site repo, let’s call it main repo
- Publish blog to its own Repo,name it “blog”
- Add repo “blog” as sub-module to the main repo
February 19, 2022 at 2:30 pm #6949

[anonymous]

Thank you @wentin I tried but couldn’t get it live and running. Actually, I am familiar with Cloudflare but not with Git and its operations.

I will try to work over the week and update my workings here.