Pages: allow symlinks

[fenollp]

GitHub Pages doesn't allow for symlinks.

Workaround: push an empty .nojekyll file to your gh-pages branch.

But then you can't use symlinks with Jekyll…

[cirosantilli]

Related: jekyll/jekyll#233

[fenollp]

Sent a PR: jekyll/jekyll#4363.

Thanks for the work you put into this project @cirosantilli :)

[fenollp]

More on workaround: https://help.github.com/articles/files-that-start-with-an-underscore-are-missing/

[WilliamDenniss]

+1 for supporting symlinks in GitHub Pages. I too want to setup a /latest symlink to point to the docs of the latest version. Thanks for the workaround @fenollp.

[Blaisorblade]

FWIW jekyll/jekyll#4363 was closed but its successor jekyll/jekyll#4710 was merged.
Not sure what that means, since I still see issues with symlinks.