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                The way to commit built files in subdirectory to gh-pages branch from an arbitrary branch
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    Committing a subfolder to the gh-pages branch from the other branch

Sometimes you want to commit a subfolder on an arbitrary branch (rather than gh-pages branch) as the root directory
to the gh-pages branch.
You will want to do so when, for example, the files to be published on GitHub Pages are generated by a build system.
This document shows the way to commit a build/gh-pages directory to the gh-pages branch by using Git plumbing commands.
In the following example, Windows PowerShell is used as a shell environment.
Step 1 : Create a tree object