GitHub Pages – Can’t Find Source of Website

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I noticed a typo on http://dblock.github.io/dotnetinstaller/ . Judging by its URL it seems to be a GitHub Pages website, so I thought I would fix the typo via a GitHub pull request.

If I am not mistaken, the HTML for a http://xyz.github.io website is at https://github.com/xyz/xyz.github.com so I went to https://github.com/dblock/dblock.github.com .

Surprise: The HTML does not look to be the same at all. There is not even a dotnetinstaller folder.

What kind of magic is operating here?

Are my assumptions about how GitHub Pages work false?

Best Answer

The correct link is https://github.com/dblock/dotnetinstaller/tree/gh-pages

Your assumption is not false but work only for User or Organisation page not for project page, so github.com/dblock/dblock.github.com is for dblock.github.io and dotnetinstaller (if it's not a folder of a User or Organisation page) is located at github.com/dblock/dotnetinstaller in the gh-pages branch.