Build and deploy a site locally — deploy_to

Assumes that you're in a git clone of the project, and the package is already installed. Use usethis::use_pkgdown_github_pages() to automate this process using GitHub actions.

deploy_to_branch(
  pkg = ".",
  commit_message = construct_commit_message(pkg),
  clean = TRUE,
  branch = "gh-pages",
  remote = "origin",
  github_pages = (branch == "gh-pages"),
  ...
)

Arguments

pkg: Path to package.
commit_message: The commit message to be used for the commit.
clean: Clean all files from old site.
branch: The git branch to deploy to
remote: The git remote to deploy to
github_pages: Is this a GitHub pages deploy. If TRUE, adds a CNAME file for custom domain name support, and a .nojekyll file to suppress jekyll rendering.
...: Additional arguments passed to build_site().