How to add `dist/` directory?

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• My project file tree:

my-repository/
|- index.html ... entrypoint
|- src/ ... source codes
|- dist/ ... created by `$ npm run build`

• .gitignore

node_modules/

dist/

index.html is located in project root directory. So I want to upload to gh-pages like this:

https://example.github.io/my-repository/index.html
https://example.github.io/my-repository/dist/bundle.js

Therefore, I wrote workflows like this:

name: Deploy To GitHub Pages
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Use Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 12.x
      - name: Install
        run : npm install
      - name: Build
        run : npm run build
      - name: Deploy
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          publish_dir: '.'
          # to include `./index.html`

I expected to include dist/. But dist/ did not include because dist/ is specified in .gitignore.

How to include dist/ in gh-pages?

[peaceiris]

You can create a new directory (e.g. public), move index.html and dist into public, and set publish_dir: 'public'.

      - name: Build
        run : npm run build
      - name: Create public
        run: |
          mkdir public
          mv ./index.html ./dist ./public
      - name: Deploy
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          publish_dir: 'public'

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