Supress "missing static" ERROR when static exists in theme

[anagio]

After uploading a hugo site to a repo someone who cloned it ran hugo server -w and got this error ERROR: 2016/07/28 23:33:38 hugo.go:637: Walker: lstat /Users/.../testhugo/static: no such file or directory

It was because I did not include the root level static folder in the repo. The theme however has a static folder which is where all the static assets live. Should I be placing static assets into the root static folder and not within the theme static folder?

I do not have a root level archetypes and got no errors about it. What's the reason the static folder is required?

[bep]

I think you currently need a /static folder even if it is empty. So if your files iive in the theme, just create a dummy /static (with a .gitkeep file or something) in the root.

We should fix this. There is no real reason the static is required (at least one static folder is requred, I guess ...)

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