In order to create a new Jekyll site, first open up a Terminal in Ubuntu. Then type in the following to create a new site:
jeykll new sitenamehere
After that, go to that directory by typing:
cd sitenamehere
Then create a new repository for the site and add all of the files associated with the repository:
git init
git add .
Commit those files
git commit -m "Add new Jekyll site"
Ignore the _site/ directory
nano .gitignore
Once in nano, type _site/ so that directory is ignored. Then after saving .gitignore (by typing ctrl+O to save and then ctrl+X to exit)
git add . gitignore
git commit -m "Ignore _site"
Name the master branch as gh-pages
git branch -m master gh-pages
Create a new repository and add that repository to origin
git remote add origin https://github.com/odorsey/sitenamehere
And finally push those commits!
git push origin gh-pages
My Jekyll site is located here
