publishing instructions
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+## How to publish
+
+Once you have written and previewed your post, you will need to commit and push any changes you made to both your source `.md` files and compiled `.html` files.
+
+```bash
+jekyll build
+git add -u
+
+# if needed, add new content
+git add content/*
+
+git commit -m 'my new post'
+git push upstream
+```
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