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(2016) > GitHub even has a website dedicated to different ways of organising and deploying them <https://dotfiles.github.com/ https://dotfiles.github.com/>. 4
by chrismorgan 6y ago
(2016)
> GitHub even has a website dedicated to different ways of organising and deploying them <https://dotfiles.github.com/ https://dotfiles.github.com/>.
404, I presume https://dotfiles.github.io https://dotfiles.github.io is what they were referring to, which is not affiliated with GitHub at all. (And there you see one of the reasons for shifting user content away from *.github.com to a different domain.)
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This submission is presumably inspired by a current/recent discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27134249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27134249 on A Way To Manage Dotfiles, https://github.com/kalkayan/dotfiles https://github.com/kalkayan/dotfiles, which is predicated upon another approach: using a bare Git repository with its work tree as the root of $HOME.
- emayljames 6y agoIs possible they meant that to mean a website on GitHub, and not an actual GitHub website.
- Lammy 6y agoIt's just a very old link from before github.io existed for Github Pages: https://github.blog/2013-04-05-new-github-pages-domain-github-io/ https://github.blog/2013-04-05-new-github-pages-domain-githu...