Jekyll - create new site scaffold in existing project

Question

To create a new site scaffold with Jekyll, the command is jekyll new <site_name> where <site_name> is the new project's root folder name. If the <site_name> value is an existing folder, an error is thrown: Conflict: <site_name> exists and is not empty.

Is there a Jekyll command that makes it possible to create a new site scaffold inside an existing project? The purpose would be to adapt an existing static site to take advantage of templating etc in Jekyll.

Answer 1

You can force Jekyll to create a new site in a non empty folder by using the --force flag.

jekyll new <site_name> --force