Suggestion To Clean Up Contents In .gitignore File about jekyll-rtd-theme

@zhongxiang117
*.gem is only for this repo local build theme use!
*.whl is only for this repo download origin sphinx_rtd_theme theme use!

About jekyll-remote-theme gem plugin, you can see the source code for witch file is included

_includes
_layouts
_sass
assets

No _data dir and any more files!

global-gitignore is not recommends

Keep update the theme, github pages use remote_theme and local use ruby gem

Blow option for remote-theme method compress css!

sass:
  style: compressed

[zhongxiang117]

You may misunderstand what I am saying.

Let we think a scenario, suppose a new user wants to use this theme to support his/her blog or to release documents. As usual, s/he needs to Fork or Download this theme first, in either way, s/he has the default .gitignore in his/her repository.

And probably, s/he may be not aware those git-ignore entries.

It has great possible that s/he may need to pre-check their contents before they really online-git-publishing.

It works well in their local building.

However, if it exists a file happening to match git-ignore rules, then what will happen in next?

Those ignored files will not be published to their online git repository.

Therefore, it will cause differences between the local repository and remote git repository.

This is the Potential Issue that I am talking about.

It is not about how do you set your own .gitignore for developments, it is about the hidden problem between user's local and git-remote repository.

This package is not a one time build-to-use package, the user needs to constantly make relations between their local and git-remote repositories, thus please do not help user set those .gitignore options.

And I guess it also is the reason that that you removed *.html option in the early version's.

The global-gitignore is only a suggestion for you to make your local repository works like your current settings.

So, I still strongly suggest to remove all contents in offical package .gitignore file.