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Discussion on: Deploy a React App as a Github User Page with Yarn

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Catherine Lin

Hi, thanks for writing this tutorial!

I followed the instructions but I'm still getting an error after running deploy from the source branch.

'fatal: A branch named 'master' already exists.'

Do you have any idea why?

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Catherine Lin

Never mind , I managed to get it work. Thanks again for the instructions! :)

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Hakki Riza Kucuk • Edited

I am having the exact same problem right now but I could not get it work. Could you please share how did you solve it?

EDIT: for anybody who would face the same problem: refer here
github.com/tschaub/gh-pages#when-g...

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Hakki Riza Kucuk

I could not solve this problem so I came up with another solution: -check out a new branch called "source" which is an exact copy of "master".
-deploy the site to branch "gh-pages" with usual gh-pages npm module. (I use npm in my example, but the script is same.)

  • rebase "master" to "gh-pages" and simply push it. So "master" will have what "gh-pages" will have.

It is a not a clean solution though. Any feedback is much appreciated.