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I was using Travis CI to execute 271 builds and deployments of this blog. Last Friday, I decided to experiment with CircleCI and see if this could be a viable alternative to my current solution. In this blog post, I explain why I decided to switch, and how to set up CircleCI to deploy Hexo blog to the GitHub Pages without much hustle.

Today I’ve decided to improve my Github account settings a bit. I thought that it would be nice to add GPG key to it and sign all commits pushed from my computer. Everything worked great until I tried to commit the first change directly from my IntelliJ IDEA.

I have found Hexo a great tool for building a blog and apply many well-known software development principles. One of them is automation. This is why I have decided to integrate this blog with Travis CI to perform a deployment to GitHub pages. It was a great decision, however a few days later I have noticed one significant issue - deploying a new version of the blog from the CI server caused removing all commits from master branch and starting with initial commit over and over again. It took me a while to find working solution to this problem. This blog post explains a simple solution to this problem.