About _site folder

[whalekeykeeper]

Since we are using GitHub Pages, we can directly configure it to build our site from the main branch or a dedicated branch without needing to commit the _site folder.
Shall we add it into .gitignore?

[damianodamiani]

hey sure, if that won't impact on the website usability then def!

[whalekeykeeper]

hey sure, if that won't impact on the website usability then def!

In theory, it would be the best practice to remove it and add the path into .gitignore.

Whenever we run jeykll build locally, Jeykll compiles all our sources files and generates the complete static website in this directory.

Then, remotely, whenever we push something to our repository (main branch), GitHub Pages will automatically build our Jeykll site to recreate the content in this directory. Not to say that sometimes more than one person are working on this project.

Therefore, including this directory/folder makes the repository size larger unnecessarily and especially it may cause merge conflicts.

So, yeah, I think it is better that I go to add it to the PR draft.

[damianodamiani]

OK!