[IPython-dev] gh-pages problem...

[Darren Dale]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:28 AM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:20, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Also, if you add a .nojekyll in the master branch of that repo (or the
>>> > gh-pages repo), github can serve the content as provided by sphinx,
>>> > without additional processing.
>>>
>>> Especially this.  While we have a makefile that does the extra
>>> processing, it is just one more thing to maintain.  What do others
>>> think?
>>
>> The sphinx-github extension resolves the conflict easily, but .nojekyll is
>> definitely nicer.

the sphinx-github extension is no longer maintained:
https://github.com/michaeljones/sphinx-to-github

>> Does .nojekyll work with regular repo gh-pages, or just
>> 'ipython.github.com' ones?
>
> Yes, that is a great question!

It also works with a gh-pages branch in a regular repo. There is some
discussion and references in the sphinx-to-github readme at the above
link.

Darren