Question regarding Zola build outputs (Codeberg pages)

[potentialnull]

Codeberg instructs using two repositories or a submodule to separate the generator and output.

The Zola instructions use a single repository and push the builds to a branch.

Which should I use? If I use Zola's instructions the index would be located at username.codeberg.page/repo/@Branch

If I use Codeberg's the index would be at username.codeberg.page which is much shorter and preferable. I just don't know how to set this up since zola build deletes all files and thus the git information would be removed on each build.

I could create a third local directory e.g. zola-staging, use that as my build output target, and then manually copy the contents over to the tracked zola-pages build folder, overwriting the files. This seems a little awkward. I'm not sure if it would work or not.

[Keats]

Whichever you prefer, as long as it works. I use the branch approach myself but really, whatever works.