HTML Presentations and Git – A Reveal.js and GitHub Smorgasboard – Reveal.js
HTML Presentations and Git
A Reveal.js and GitHub Smorgasboard
Created by Evan Oxfeld / @evanoxfeld
Problem: Host an HTML Presentation
Using a GitHub project with a gh-pages branch & index.html
Reveal.js
reveal.js is a framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML. You'll need a browser with support for CSS 3D transforms to see it in its full glory.
Markdown Support
<section data-markdown>
## Markdown support
Instructions and a bit more info available
[here](https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#markdown).
</section>
Export to PDF
Presentations can be exported to PDF, below is an example that's been uploaded to SlideShare.
Speaker Notes
git clone https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js.git [projectname]
Edit index.html and commit
Create GitHub repo
Rename branch
git br -m gh-pages
Rename origin
git remote rename origin reveal
Add new remote
git remote add origin https://github.com/EvanOxfeld/revealjs-on-github-presentation.git
Push gh-pages branch
git push -u origin gh-pages
EvanOxfeld.github.io/revealjs-on-github-presentation
But what about custom domains?
Edit CNAME in username/username.github.io
Configure your DNS
help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-with-pages
blog.evanoxfeld.com/revealjs-on-github-presentation
GitHub's Down. What about sneakernet?
Create a git bundle
git bundle create repo.bundle [branchname]
git tag -m "Last bundle"
Clone the bundle
git clone repo.bundle myRepo -b [branchname]
Bundle additional commits
git bundle create more.bundle lastBundleTag..[branchname]
Update Second Machine
git pull more.bundle [branchname]