# Deploying a dist folder to GitHub Pages

Sometimes you want to have a subdirectory on the `master` branch be the root directory of a repository’s `gh-pages` branch. This is useful for things like sites developed with [Yeoman](http://yeoman.io).

### Step 1

Remove the `dist` directory from the project’s `.gitignore` file (it’s ignored by default by yeoman).

### Step 2

Set up the subtree.

```sh
git add dist && git commit -m "Initial dist subtree commit"
git subtree push --prefix dist origin gh-pages
```

### Step 3

Deploy dat subtree.

```sh
git subtree push --prefix dist origin gh-pages
```

Boom. If your folder isn’t called `dist`, then you’ll need to change that in each of the commands above.