Editing Openai/691ff205-cea0-8003-bde5-f449b081a1e1 (section)

==== Think of Git like a 3-step publishing pipeline: ====
# <code>git add .</code> >  - . means “everything that changed in this folder”. - Nothing is uploaded yet, you’re just staging the changes.
# <code>git commit -m "your message"</code> >  - This creates a version of your code (a checkpoint) locally on your machine. - Still not on GitHub yet.
# <code>git push</code> >  - This is what syncs your local work → remote repo. - If you don’t push, GitHub (and GitHub Pages) never see your new files.

So when you run npm run build, it only updates files on your computer (like your /docs folder).
To make GitHub Pages use that new build, you must:

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">npm run build          # creates/updates /docs
git add .
git commit -m "Build for GitHub Pages"
git push               # uploads /docs + config changes

</syntaxhighlight>

Only after the push will you see /docs and new files in the GitHub repo UI.