Adding pages from other GitHub repos on personal Jekyll website

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I have a personal blog hosted my GitHub repo. I have other repositories (for example, this with its own page) whose content I would like to put inside my personal blog without copying the content from these other repos.

I would like the posts from my other repos to show on my Blog’s homescreen (and within the site) without copying the contents from these repos to my blog repo.

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Possibly you could do this with Git submodules, which Github-Pages supports:

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Just adding the repo as a submodule (with https) did not do anything for me.

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Have a look at other posts from the last few months on the forum. There were a few ways suggested.

I don’t think GitHub Pages supports submodules. Oh I see answer above says it does.

GitHub Actions does too, but you have to add something to the standard clone step.

See my Hexo site here which has a submodules param to pull in a repo which is a theme in this case.

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It would have been nice for you to share the file but I tracked it down here for reference for others.

Does it work locally at least? You have to run a command to update / pull in submodules.

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The submodule is being cloned inside the _posts directory, and Jekyll will ignore it because it isn’t a Markdown post.

You could try putting the submodule elsewhere, for example in the images directory:

[submodule "_posts/compilation-of-3d-mesh-model-resources"]
	path = images
	url = https://github.com/zshn25/compilation-of-3d-mesh-model-resources.git

Then you can access the submodule images with URLs like: https://zshn25.github.io/images/compilation-of-3d-mesh-model-resources/images/pascal.png

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I only want the README from that repo (which is a markdon post). @MichaelCurrin, I also tried your method with GitHub Actions with no success unfortunately.

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Jekyll needs the posts to have a specific filename format. I created a new post and referenced the README from the submodule using

{% include_relative <relative-path-to-submodule>/README.md %}

and it worked. Thank you guys.

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