When using GitHub's theme selector page will not render.

[wsender]

My Reproduction Steps

I build my jekyll site locally and serve the site without issue. Everything works as expected. This is using the minima theme.

I push my changes to GitHub and check the site and everything works.

I navigate to my repository settings, scroll down to GitHub Page, and select the theme I want (in this case Architect). Doing this changes my _config.yml file. If I review the commit that was created by using the theme chooser I can see that the site isn't building and the error message is as follows:

"Failure: A file was included in 'about.md' that is a symlink or does not exists in your '_includes' directory."

The Output I Wanted

My GitHub Pages page to switch from the minima theme to the Architect (or other) theme.

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[benbalter]

We can't speak to the specifics of your local setup. If you contact GitHub support they should be able to help you get things straightened out.