How to Link User Site README as Profile Page README?

[mortonmills]

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I'm trying to link my user site repo README as my profie page README.
As suggested from StackOverflow, I've tried creating a symlink to the repo README with this address.
"../1960s.github.io/blob/main/README.md"
Repo here:
(https://github.com/1960s/1960s)

Will be grateful for any direction on the matter

[mortonmills]

Thanks for the suggestion, I did read up on it.
I've successfully been able to get a profile README to work before.
My trouble however is getting my user repo (github.io) README to be identical to my profile README.
So when I make changes to the user repo README those changes will show up in the profile README.

[DSDmark]

Hi @1960s,

Your GitHub username is 1960s and your GitHub profile is 1960s/README.md and you have a GitHub page which is 1960s.github.io which is also contained the same README file as 1960s/README.md. So, your question is (if I understood correctly), there is a way to add those two reamdes to make only one. So, whenever you made change. You will not need to change both of separately.

So, if i m correct. Then, it is hard to do. But, if your end goal is to maintain both file. Then, you can do by creating GitHub page.

First way.

• Go to your 1960s repository on GitHub.

• Click on the Settings tab.

• Scroll down to the GitHub Pages section.

• In the Source dropdown, select the branch that contains your consolidated README.md file (typically the default branch, such as main) like this:

• Choose the root folder ("/") as the publishing source.

• Click on the Save button.

In this method, you can manage your GitHub page on this URL https://dsdmark.github.io/1960s/ like this DSDmark's profile and DSDmark's GitHub page

Second way.

And other way to use GitHub action like this, which is change another repo file content.

name: Update README

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  update-readme:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    
    steps:
    - name: Checkout repository
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      
    - name: Update README in otherrepo
      run: |
        # Read the contents of the README file
        readme_contents=$(cat README.md)
        
        # Clone the otherrepo repository
        git clone https://github.com/DSDmark/otherrepo.git
        
        # Update the README file in otherrepo with the contents from actionofgithub
        echo "$readme_contents" > otherrepo/README.md
        
        # Commit and push the changes
        cd otherrepo
        git config user.name "Your Name"
        git config user.email "your@email.com"
        git add README.md
        git commit -m "Update README from actionofgithub"
        git push

[vorant94]

do I understand you correct that as of now there is no way of automatically linking profile readme to pages repository? e.g. so the profile readme won't be taken from <username> repo, but <username>.github.io repo instead?