Jekyll sites on github and git submodule fun
While creating the opensource section of this site, and another (to be announced) section of this site it just came to me - why am I duplicating the same template page and also having to change the template all the time.
Granted I haven’t changed the template yet, however I want to add some improvements to it later (mostly for mobile). The thought of having to update it N times (where N is the number of subsites I have) wasn’t too appealing. More room for error too. So my solution, work smart not hard!
I figured, hey lets make use of the git submodule for the _layouts folder and move all the layouts to a separate project.
I did this, and as a result all works well so far. So essentially, with github you can have a main site and subsites which share the same template. The more you know when you discover problems to be solved!
The Process
- Set up a new git repository
- Copy all the layouts to that repository
- Then do a git submodule add against that repository
- git commit the new changes
- push it and make sure you haven’t broken anything
The End Result
This repository which is basically the templates for this entire site.
This site’s own repository which has a submodule of the abovementioned repository.
