Installing the site on github was easy, using the instructions from the octopress site.

The site is now on the earlab organization page.

I still need to check what rake deploy does now. I.e.:

• Do I need to run rake generate as before?
• Do I need to commit manually before running rake deploy?

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Update Jan 4, 2014 (3:29 PM)

rake deploy synchronizes with github, commits the new site, pushes to git in one command it does three things:

1. Pull any changes from github.
2. Commit new state of site to git.
3. Push new state of site to Github.

Possibly, it also re-generates the site before committing. However: For some reason, blog post formatting is broken, unless I generate the site with rake generate first. I suspect this is because not all files are completely updated before the commit starts. For this reason, I have to run rake generate manually before doing rake deploy. Even then, I wait some minutes before doing the deploy, for good measure.

Facit

To successfully push the site to github, follow 2 steps:

1. Run rake generate (and wait till that is finished).
2. Run rake deploy to push the generated site to github.