Github Jekyll Theme Changes

OK, so I changed the theme of my github pages site by changing the theme: setting in the _config.yaml file.

The theme did not change right away.

I thought maybe I’d have to wait a while, but after 12 hours or so, still no change to the theme.

I know that the standard way jekyll works is that if you’re running it in ‘–watch’ mode, it looks for changes to posts and pages, but it doesn’t rebuild the site if you change the config file. For that, you have to run jekyll build again.

But since github pages handles the jekyll stuff themselves, I’m wondering what will trigger this new theme to be incorporated…

Will adding a new page do it? That’s what I’m about to find out by submitting this here page!