# Deploying a subfolder 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), 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`.
### Step 1
Remove the `dist` directory from the project’s `.gitignore` file (it’s ignored by default by Yeoman).
### Step 2
Make sure git knows about your subtree (the subfolder with your site).
```sh
git add dist && git commit -m "Initial dist subtree commit"
```
### Step 3
Use subtree push to send it to the `gh-pages` branch on GitHub.
```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.
---
If you do this on a regular basis, you could also [create a script](https://github.com/cobyism/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/git-gh-deploy) containing the following somewhere in your path:
```sh
#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo "Which folder do you want to deploy to GitHub Pages?"
exit 1
fi
git subtree push --prefix $1 origin gh-pages
```
Which lets you type commands like:
```sh
git gh-deploy path/to/your/site
```