I had to download my Octopress blog to a new machine today and the process of setting up didn’t go as smoothly as I expected. At the end of the day the setup turned out to be simple, and here are the steps:

git clone -b source https://github.com/username/username.github.io myblog
cd myblog
git clone https://github.com/username/username.github.io _deploy
bundle install

In a nutshell, you have to manually add _deploy folder set to track master branch of your Octopress repository. Otherwise rake deploy command fails.

Happy writing!

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