Jekyll not generating files from deeply nested folder

Question

I am trying to generate a site that contains javadoc.

The structure looks like this:

|
|--com
|   |--myproduct
|          |--mypackage
|               |--notgenerated.html
|--index.html

In the _site folder I get only

|
|--index.html

When I add a dummy file in the com directory

|
|--com
|   |--myproduct
|   |       |--mypackage
|   |            |--notgenerated.html
|   |--generated.html
|--index.html

The _site folder now looks like this

|
|--com
|   |--generated.html
|--index.html

How can I get Jekyll to copy these deeply nested files to the _site directory without having to place dummy files in the intermediate directories?

I am using Ruby 1.9.1 with Jekyll 0.11.2 on Win7-x64.

Answer 1

The kind souls at Github support found the cause.

It turns out that I had a mistake in _config.yml.

I used

exclude: dir1, dir2, file1

instead of

exclude: [dir1, dir2, file1]

And this caused the site generation to fail. Silently.