hugo import jekyll fails for jekyll projects with nested _posts directories

[davepeck]

With modern Jekyll, it's possible to nest _posts directories deeper in the hierarchy:

.
├── _config.yml
├── blog
|   ├── index.html
|   ├── _posts
|       └─── 2016-02-23-a-post-to-my-blog.md    
├── photoblog
|   ├── _index.html
|   ├── _posts
|       └─── 2016-02-23-a-photo-post.md
└── index.html

Hugo's import jekyll doesn't appear to know about this, and fails to import these posts correctly.

[davepeck]

Just to add a few notes:

Jekyll appears to look for _posts and _drafts in all directories it walks, so they can be nested arbitrarily deep. The superdirectory names above _posts appear to become part of of the post's categories. Other than that, a post's final resting location in the generated _site seems to depend only on the permalink setting, not its location in the source directory structure.

(There's also a curious comment in jekyll's categories_from_path implementation that seems to suggest there is some other meaning to subdirectories of a _posts directory. I've no idea what this is; might be of interest.)

Hugo's importer only looks for top-level _posts and _drafts directories. There's a split between that code (which imports posts) and the code that blindly copies what it believes to be static content; it seems like this needs to be restructured. Finally, I'm not sure I understand what the importer is doing with permalink but it might also need to be revisited.

[davepeck]

I took a quick stab at this, here: https://github.com/davepeck/hugo/commit/d6e225af7f0143fc3e5a5778886a8c84eb3ab764

Not suitable for a pull request; just a quick hack that might help someone.

[bep]

@coderzh there are couple of open issues/feature requests about the Jekyll importer now... Would this be something that you could have a look at?

[coderzh]

@bep I'd be glad to do something about these issues.

[bep]

@davepeck do you know any in-the-open (on GitHub) Jekyll sites with the "symptoms" of this and maybe the other issue(s) you have posted, that we could use to test this?

[davepeck]

I humbly offer my own personal blog as an example: https://github.com/davepeck/davepeck.org; it has both nested _posts and arbitrary files sitting around the hierarchy with YAML frontmatter.

I wonder if a cleverly crafted github search could get us some further examples?

Sorry I haven't had time to contribute code myself on this but hope at least the issues/comments were helpful.

[bep]

I humbly offer my own personal blog as an example

@davepeck And it is > 1 GB ... Could you take the PR referenced here for a spin and tell us if that works for you?

[bep]

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[bep]

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