Custom Deployment Script

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TL;DR

Use a short bash script to do deployment from your own computer directly to your *.github.io domain.

Why?

So Yihui recommends using Netlify, or even Travis-CI in the Blogdown book. I wasn’t willing to setup a custom domain yet, and some of my posts involve a lot of personally created packages, etc, that I don’t want to debug installation on Travis. So, I wanted a simple script I could call on my laptop that would copy the /public directory to the repo for my github.io site, and then push the changes.

The Script

Here is the simple script I ended up using:

#!/bin/bash
org_dir=`pwd`
cd path/to/github.io/repo/
#rm -rf *
cp -Rfu path/to/blogdown/public/* .

git add *
commit_time=`date`
git commit -m "update at $commit_time"
git push origin master

cd $org_dir

It changes directories, because to push from a git repo I’m pretty sure you need to be in the directory, so it also makes sure to go back there at the end. It then copies the contents of /public to the repo, adds all the files, and then uses the current time-stamp as the commit message, and finally pushes all the updates.

R blogdown

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