mojombo/jekyll — Issue #457: Custom destination in _config.yml causes jekyll server to auto-regenerate continuously
Author: GrandMechantLoop
Created: 2011-12-20 11:40:15+00:00
State: open

On a project I tried to rename `_site` as `_static` because I felt it made more *sense* that way (never mind, I'm usually very picky about naming stuff).

Thanks to the config argument `destination` it went quite well ; however, when starting the jekyll server with auto-regeneration it was **regenerating some files second after second** for an unknown reason. When I tried to put the name back to `destination : ./_site` suddenly the issue was no more.

Here is my guess : auto-regeneration watches every file but the ones stored in `_site` ... and it doesn't follow your config file.

Of course there are many ways around it, such as putting the static site destination out of your jekyll base folder, or *simply stopping that naming frenzy and use what's already there* ... But this is still a bug and it needs to be reported, right ?