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Creation of pages site does NOT create _config.yml #41364
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What article on docs.github.com is affected?
Quickstart guide implies that a new pages site includes _config.yml (it probably used to) and it does not. I'm creating this issue because I have a PR to fix it. I just walked through these steps myself to create, welp, my first pages site.
What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?
The steps to update _config.yml which should be CREATE _config.yml
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Please accept our apologies that you weren't informed or given co-committer attribution for this, and that we're only coming back to this now, as you were correct.
Unfortunately there's nothing more I can do at this stage other than close this as a duplicate, but we hope to see you again in future 🙇
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github-actions commentedon Dec 23, 2025
A stale label has been added to this issue, because it has been open for 30 days with no activity. If you think this issue should remain open, please add a new comment.
subatoi commentedon Aug 12, 2026
@vtwebguy It looks like this was fixed in #44821
Please accept our apologies that you weren't informed or given co-committer attribution for this, and that we're only coming back to this now, as you were correct.
Unfortunately there's nothing more I can do at this stage other than close this as a duplicate, but we hope to see you again in future 🙇