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Reputation: 4611

Jekyll+Github pages: How to use `remote_theme` for a specific revision of the theme code

I found a jekyll theme I like which is hosted on github (theme page info here). The theme supports configuring my theme on github pages with the remote_theme key in _config.yaml, but I'm uncomfortable letting a third party's repository control the appearance and client-side code of my site.

Assuming there's a particular revision of theme files that I've audited and I'm satisfied with, how do I make sure that this revision gets used?

Some ideas:

  1. Can I fork the theme repo and use remote_theme: myaccount/my-fork.
  2. Can the remote_theme syntax support a particular revision hash?
  3. Is using remote_theme simply equivalent to copying all the theme data inside my repo _layout and _style folders?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 964

Answers (1)

dee-see
dee-see

Reputation: 24078

From the docs you can use an @GITREF syntax to use a specific branch/tag/commit

You may also optionally specify a branch, tag, or commit to use by appending an @ and the Git ref (e.g., benbalter/[email protected] or benbalter/retlab@develop). If you don't specify a Git ref, the master branch will be used

Upvotes: 7

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