GitHub Project Pages and gh-pages -> gh-pages (non-fast-forward) error

I just created my first GitHub Project Page for Text-Gradiator: a JavaScript tool that lets you put gradients on regular HTML text elements. In doing so, I made the mistake of creating a page with the Automatic Page Generator before I tried doing it manually.

Rookie mistake!

When you use the automatic page generator, a gh-pages branch gets automatically generated. Then when you try to create one manually, you will receive this error:

! [rejected]        gh-pages -> gh-pages (non-fast-forward)

 After a little poking around on the internet and reading some things that turned out to be unhelpful for my situation, I stumbled across this. It’s an oldie, but a goodie!

In the before mentioned post, Dirk Bergmann suggests that you might need to delete your gh-pages branch and start fresh. I tried that, and everything went back to being cool again. Thanks, Dirk!

Directions for deleting a branch on GitHub can be found here.

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