Why is gh-pages actually the main branch ?

[vsimko]

I'm a little bit confused about the "master" vs "gh-pages" branches.
Could someone elaborate on this ?

[mattburns]

The default branch for this repo is gh-pages rather than master to make things easier using GitHub pages. Basically, if we treat gh-pages as the master, it means that changes to the coverage report are automatically updated here: http://mattburns.github.io/exiftool.js/test/generated/reports/
without having to merge across etc.

[vsimko]

maybe you actually need this:
https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-a-publishing-source-for-github-pages/#publishing-your-github-pages-site-from-a-docs-folder-on-your-master-branch

[mattburns]

Hmm, yeah, that does look like a better approach.