Ah you beat me to this idea! Nice one :)
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#12I like this a lot. I hate dealing with the gh-pages orphan branch, so this is definitely something I'll look at implementing.
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#13Great idea. I guess one could even do this with rails / django / node projects as long as they're being run in a sandbox, but that's probably way more work. Nevertheless, great. It happens so often that I see something on Github that simply lacks a live demo. Thanks!
And one could maybe even extend this to resolve external dependencies that are also hosted on Github, but that would also be way more work.
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#14Obligatory bookmarklet:
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#15Is there a generally accepted term for the Domain Swap as User Interface that this uses? I've come across the same idea [1] on several different sites/services and was just curious.
1. youtube.com -> youtuberepeater.com and reddit.com/r/aww -> imgur.com/r/aww
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#16This is great! Thank you.
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#17Unfortunately, I found that 5 minute fork doesn't initialize git submodules for https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises. :(
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#18This is great for https://github.com/fat/slow-flying-pizza
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#19Tried it with the only repo I have with plain html/js* and works like a charm. Pretty neat! * http://5minfork.com/reidrac/canvas-raycasting
I understand users' need for this, but as a this is your code, why don't you also push it to the gh-pages branch? That would make the exact same thing available at http://reidrac.github.com/canvas-raycasting (and then add a link to your README)
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#20Tried it with the only repo I have with plain html/js* and works like a charm. Pretty neat! * http://5minfork.com/reidrac/canvas-raycasting
I understand users' need for this, but as a this is your code, why don't you also push it to the gh-pages branch? That would make the exact same thing available at http://reidrac.github.com/canvas-raycasting (and then add a link to your README)
I used to try to do that with my projects, but I found keeping the gh-pages branch in sync with my master just enough of a pain that it quickly got neglected. I'm not saying you shouldn't, and personally, I'd rather there be a hosted example of the repo - I just made 5minfork for those ones that (I often found) didn't have the live example.