In computing, memoization or memoisation
is an optimization technique used primarily
to speed up computer programs by storing
the results of expensive function calls and
returning the cached result when the same
inputs occur again.
— wikipedia
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, or if you have a Jekyll site contained in the master
branch alongside the rest of your code.
For the sake of this example, let’s pretend the subfolder containing your site is named dist
.
Remove the dist
directory from the project’s .gitignore
file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).