FAQ: Deploy Your Website to GitHub Pages - Create Your Repo

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" our repo’s name must also follow GitHub Pages’ naming convention, otherwise your site will not publish at all."

I dont understand this part. Why we have to place the repo name like “your-user-name.github.io”. What if I host 2 repositories?

I came across these error message. What should I do?

Admin@User-PC MINGW64 ~/Desktop/html/halimjon.com/my-portfolio-site (master)
$ git push -u origin master
To https://github.com/HalimHamidov/halim.github.io.git
 ! [rejected]        master -> master (fetch first)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/HalimHamidov/halim.github.io.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do
hint: not have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing
hint: to the same ref. You may want to first integrate the remote changes
hint: (e.g., 'git pull ...') before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.