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steveklabnik/automatically_update_github_pages_with_travis_example
An example of automatically updating GitHub Pages when you're using Travis CI.
A tutorial repo from 2013-era Steve Klabnik showing how to auto-deploy GitHub Pages via Travis CI. It demonstrates the pattern of pushing generated files to a gh-pages branch using a personal access token injected as an encrypted CI variable. Useful as historical reference; not something you'd adopt today.
The deploy.sh script is solid for its time — `set -o errexit -o nounset` is the right instinct, the fresh git init trick avoids polluting history with giant diffs, and the branch guard prevents accidental deploys from PRs. The README explains the *why* behind each step rather than just pasting commands.
Travis CI is effectively dead for open source, so the entire premise is obsolete — GitHub Actions replaced this workflow years ago with a first-party `actions/deploy-pages` action and no token juggling required. The deploy script hardcodes Steve's name and email, making it a copy-paste trap. Personal access tokens with repo scope are overkill here; the pattern predates fine-grained tokens and deploy keys. Last pushed in 2018, and no one has updated it to reflect any of this.