How to deploy hexo blog on two machines

Why we need this?

Yes, Hexo is able to deploy with npm install hexo-deployer-git --save for us by simply setting up _config.yml file. It looks like normally:

deploy: 
  type: git
  repository: git@github.com:username/username.github.io.git
  branch: master

Once you push to master branch, github stores the static webpage files instead of source file. Among all files it pushes, there is one .deploy_git which records how hexo tracks remote master branches. On computer 2, git clone only pull down the static webpage files instead of source files. So you need a branch to keep source files.

About blogging with Hexo

Check here!

How?

On computer 1’s source file folder, you may checkout a new local branch hexo
- Let it track to remote’s hexo branch.
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  git branch --set-upstream-to origin/hexo hexo
- Push it to remote as
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  git push origin hexo
- Don’t forget to get rid of .git folder for your themes if they’re cloned.

On compute 2, pull down only hexo branch by

git init && git remote add origin <remote_repo>
git fetch origin hexo:hexo && git checkout hexo or
git checkout --track origin/hexo (most recent versions of Git)
or git clone -b hexo <remote_repo> <folder_name>

On compute 2, pull down only hexo branch by

git init && git remote add origin <remote_repo>
git fetch origin hexo:hexo && git checkout hexo or
git checkout --track origin/hexo (most recent versions of Git)
or git clone -b hexo <remote_repo> ....
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* cd into this folder, and `npm install & npm install hexo-deployer-git --save`

* write new blog, generate and deploy


  hexo g
  hexo new post "post_name"
  hexo d
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* once finished, push to remote


  git add source
  git commit -m "xxxx"
  git push