How to unconfigure Jekyll on GitHub Pages

Question

I'm working on a website hosted at quinnmchugh.github.io and now whenever I push code to GitHub I receive an email from GitHub saying that

The page build failed with the following error: unable to build page. Please try again later. For information on troubleshooting Jekyll see: https://help.github.com/articles/troubleshooting-jekyll-builds

This website was copied from a template and I was unaware that Jekyll was baked into it. I don't want Jekyll to be enabled on this repo. How can I disable it and stop receiving emails from GitHub about build failures?

Answer 1

You can add an empty .nojekyll file at the root of your repository. This will instruct github pages to publish your files without processing them with jekyll.

Answer 2

just delete the repository, create a new one add the html files you want to be hosted then create an new branch with the name gh-pages. that should stop the messages and have your site up and running.