The page build failed for the gh-pages branch

[Gharibw]

I have tried building the theme multiple times, but I keep getting the following error, even after completely deleting the includes.

A file was included in source/blog/index.htmlthat is a symlink or does not exist in your_includes directory. For more information, see https://help.github.com/articles/page-build-failed-file-is-a-symlink/.

Here's a link to my repo: https://github.com/gharibw/gharibw.github.io

Thank you!

[aus10powell]

I found the solution to this exact problem. I'm guessing you were also following the standard of pushing master branch to repo...this doesn't work.

1. Make sure to change GITHUB_REPONAME and GITHUB_REPO_BRANCH from defaults
2. Make sure to run install.sh
3. In source/_sass/main.sass on line 8, make sure @import bourbon is @import "bourbon/bourbon"
4. run rake in main directory

I guess you can just create an archive branch and brute force push to master whenever you make a change. Perhaps it's because I'm not a hardcore software developer that I can't appreciate the convenience of such a method, but I am definitely not a fan of posting since it force commits the important files using the rake command.

[lpossamai]

I'm having the same issue. The solution mentioned by @aus10powell did not work.

[kevinmmartins]

Please check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39978856/unable-to-change-source-branch-in-github-pages