imathis/octopress — Issue #312: Site structure and files
Author: procload
Created: 2011-12-09 01:38:21+00:00
State: open

So I've been busy digging through the Octopress source and customizing it to my needs, but I'm a bit confused as to how the directory structure is set up.

I see the files I am supposed to modify are in the source/ directory, but I'm confused what the other files in its parent directory are for such as octopress/index.html, octopress/javascripts/*, etc.

I see the files in the _deploy folder are the compiled files and the ones that are sent with the deploy script, but I'm not seeing the parent level files changed ever. I see the only files that really matter when I edit them are the SASS files in the octopress/sass directory.

I'm really curious to learning about this, and I'd like to know the thinking about why it's necessary to have so many copies of multiple files?

Could someone please help me out here? Thanks in advance.