Upon pushing an update to my gh-pages remote branch, i received an email from github, “Page build failure”.
The submodule ‘myGitHubUser.github.io’ was not properly initialized with a ‘.gitmodules’ file.
Providing link, https://help.github.com/articles/page-build-failed-missing-submodule/
Following instruction in this link i tried,
git submodule init
Which returned,
No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path ‘myGitHubUser.github.io'
During my research, i found, https://support.deployhq.com/articles/common-deployment-errors/no-submodule-mapping-found
Which explains,
This occurs when the repository is using a submodule that has had no mapping reference to the source repository created for it. The mapping needs to be entered into a .gitmodules file inside the repository you are using.
But at this point i’ve gone further down the rabbit hole than i can keep track of. Can you explain what is going on here at a high level?