site.url set to github.com

[Asbjørn Ulsberg]

For some reason, I'm getting the following URLs in my Jekyll site:

Code	URL
page.url | absolute_url	https://github.com/pages/SwedbankPay/swedbank-pay-design-guide-jekyll-theme/
site.url	https://github.com
'/assets/css/main.css' | relative_url	/pages/SwedbankPay/swedbank-pay-design-guide-jekyll-theme/assets/css/main.css

There are several things that are puzzling me here:

1. Why is site.url set to https://github.com and not the configured GitHub Pages domain https://swedbankpay.github.io/? I get the same behaviour on sites with custom domain names as well; site.url is set to https://github.com regardless.
2. Why isn't site.url set to github.pages_hostname or an Octokit pages.html_url equivalent?
3. Where is /pages/ coming from and in which configurations of GitHub Pages or Jekyll does that base_url make any sense?
4. These URLs seems to have been mangled as we went from relying on GitHub Pages to build our .html files to us building them ourselves by manually invoking jekyll build. What do we have to do to make our custom Jekyll build work?

We could of course remove jekyll-github-metadata, but then we would loose github.public_repositories and other useful objects used to dynamically build parts of our Jekyll site. It would be better if we could just completely turn off jekyll-github-metadata's URL configuration, or at least somehow tweak it to give us the right values.

Right now I'm looking at jumping through quite a few hoops in order to set site.url to github.pages_hostname. Any pointers to how I can do that the simplest way possible would be highly appreciated.

[Asbjørn Ulsberg]

After some serious amount of digging it seems that if the environment variable JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN is passed into the build, the behavior changes dramatically. By forking this repo and adding a few more log statements we were able to get the following result. Without JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN defined:

GitHub Metadata: Adding url and base url fallbacks...
GitHub Metadata: Url is set to https://github.com
GitHub Metadata: baseurl is set to /pages/SwedbankPay/swedbank-pay-design-guide-jekyll-theme

With JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN defined:

GitHub Metadata: Adding url and base url fallbacks...
GitHub Metadata: Url is set to https://swedbankpay.github.io
GitHub Metadata: baseurl is set to /swedbank-pay-design-guide-jekyll-theme

Why GitHub Metadata is touching site.url and baseurl when JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN is not defined seems like a serious bug to me. Under which circumstance will the fallback values used when JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN is not set make any sense whatsoever?

[Moira Granerud]

The log statements seen in here is added in #189

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