quack!

Learning to use GitHub gh-pages and actions, the only way...

My steps so far:

I created the main repository, and added some content. Basically
- a .gitignore file
- a simple Makefile to build and clean a LaTeX file in .doc/
I activated an action here --- the fist step is basically to compile the LaTeX file. I used new action -> build your own and edited it so that it runs on pushed for the main branch.
I want to create the page from a blank gh-pages branch. I failed to find info on GitHub help, but it seems that this blog entry form Jia Fu Low is the solution. Basically I did, after adjusting .gitignore to have a fully clean status:
```
 git checkout --orphan gh-pages
 git reset --hard
```
check that nothing is in your root; I added a .gitignore for this now
```
 git add .gitignore
 git commit -m "Set-up gh-pages orphan branch"
 git push origin gh-pages
```
Went to Settings -> Pages and the page was already on (!); I choosed a theme (minimal).

To keep also gh-pages in sync, I did (hope it's ok)

 git branch --set-upstream-to origin/gh-pagetmp

Try to apply Deploy to GitHub pages
- in the first test it wiped out my gh-pages branch...
- it needs a clean: false!
Changing names to actions and try to add an action for PR.
- works ok, now I have one action that deploys (on pushes to main) and another one that just checks (on PRs)
- if you add [skip ci] in the commit or merge title it will... skip actions.

Rmano/quack