GitHub Metadata Warnings/Errors

[justinrummel]

• This is a question about using the theme.
• I believe this to be a bug with the theme --- not Jekyll, GitHub Pages or one of the bundled plugins.
• This is a feature request.
• I have updated all gems with bundle update.
• I have tested locally with bundle exec jekyll build.

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Environment informations

• Minimal Mistakes version: current master
• github-pages or jekyll gem version: 3.2.1
• Operating system: macOS

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Expected behavior

Steps to reproduce the behavior

When running bundle exec jekyll serve I keep getting these GitHub Errors/warnings. I'm not sure if there is an issue, or if something is not configured correctly in the _config.yml. My site is hosted on a 3rd party service and NOT on GitHub. I use octopress deploy jekyll plugin to make rsync work in a simple fashion.

justinrummel@Rummel-MBPr ~/D/G/jr.com-mm> bundle exec jekyll s -c _config.yml,_AccessKeys.yml,_localhost.yml
Configuration file: _config.yml
Configuration file: _AccessKeys.yml
Configuration file: _localhost.yml
            Source: /Users/justinrummel/Documents/GIT/jr.com-mm
       Destination: /Users/justinrummel/Documents/GIT/jr.com-mm/_site
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating...
   GitHub Metadata: No GitHub API authentication could be found. Some fields may be missing or have incorrect data.
   GitHub Metadata: GET https://api.github.com/repos/justinrummel/jr.com-mm/pages: 404 - Not Found // See: https://developer.github.com/v3
                    done in 26.898 seconds.
 Auto-regeneration: enabled for '/Users/justinrummel/Documents/GIT/jr.com-mm'
Configuration file: _config.yml
Configuration file: _AccessKeys.yml
Configuration file: _localhost.yml
    Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/
  Server running... press ctrl-c to stop.

[mmistakes]

This isn't really a theme issue, it's related to the github-pages gem and other gems it depends on.

I haven't seen these particular errors before, but have seen similar related to the jekyll-github-metadata gem used by GitHub Pages.

I don't know much about how that gem works other than it helps populate some site variables that GitHub Pages hosted sites can leverage. Setting repository in your _config.yml does most of the heavy lifting as does setting origin on your site's remote to a github.com URL.

Since you're not hosting with GitHub then there's no reason for you to use it I would assume. Here's what I would do:

Step 1. In your Gemfile replace gem "github-pages", group: :jekyll_plugins with gem "jekyll" and add all of the Jekyll plugins used in your _config.yml (they're under gems:). You need to do this because github-pages automatically installs them and the vanilla jekyll gem does not.

You'll end up with something like this:

source "https://rubygems.org"

gem "jekyll"
gem "wdm", "~> 0.1.0" if Gem.win_platform?

group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem 'octopress'
  gem 'jekyll-archives'
  gem 'jekyll-twitter-plugin'
  gem 'jekyll-lunr-js-search'
  gem 'jekyll-paginate'
  gem 'jekyll-sitemap'
  gem 'jekyll-gist'
  gem 'jekyll-feed'
  gem 'jemoji'
end

Step 2. Run bundle update

Step 3. Run bundle exec jekyll s -c _config.yml,_AccessKeys.yml,_localhost.yml and see if everything works. If you get any errors about missing gems add them to your Gemfile, bundle install, and try to fire up Jekyll again. There may be a gem or two that github-pages loaded as a dependency that jekyll does not.

Optional? You can probably safely remove repository: justinrummel/jr.com-mm from _config.yml.

[justinrummel]

Thank you! This solved the warnings, plus helped fix the lunr search all in one step!!!

[mmistakes]

Good good.