My Publishing Workflow

By Endy Tjahjono. Last update 04 May 2013.

I put this website on GitHub Pages. To create a new post, first I create a new text file in markdown format. Then I commit this text file to a local git repository. Then I push the changes to GitHub. Then GitHub Pages uses Jekyll to rerender the whole site into plain HTML files.

I use Git for Windows and have Git GUI open when I am working on the website. To speed up publishing I use this sequence of keyboard shortcuts:

1. Alt-Tab to Git GUI
2. F5 to refresh changed file list
3. Ctrl-I to put all changed files into stage
4. Type commit messages
5. Ctrl-Enter to commit
6. Ctrl-P to push to GitHub

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