Git repo not updating github.io content

Question

Git newbie here. Have searched Stackoverflow for this but nothing matches.

I have been committing/pushing my files for the last 8 weeks. However this week it seems to have gone wrong.

• My git repo (https://github.com/alice-tlr/alice-tlr.github.io) is showing the updated files, that match my local dev files
• However they are not reflected in the live https://alice-tlr.github.io site
• Git reports everything is up to date when i try push

Have also tried backing up & the deleting various folders and re-cloning. The push is successful but still the github.io site doesn't update.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The folders you are trying to update in github.com/alice-tlr/alice-tlr.github.io are nested git repo recorded as gitlink, a special entry in the index of the repo.

A gitlink is just a SHA1 of another repo, as your commit bcc3d31 illustrate:

Those are the gray folder you see in your GitHub repo.

They won't ever include files directly.

You can transform them as full-fledged submodules.
They will still be gitlinks, meaning still a gray folder, but this time, GitHub page can fetch their content and display it (provided those submodules reference public repositories)

An actual submodule is:

• a gitlink (a SHA1)
• an url (that is the part which is missing currently)

Note that you can also remove the nested git repo and add directly its content if you want.