Support for custom files is not working

[djhoese]

Describe the bug

I have a GitHub Pages project (https://github.com/pytroll/pytroll.github.io) which due to some limitations of GitHub Pages I was pulling in the minima theme from github instead of the one officially supported by github pages (at least this is what I remember about doing it). I also customized the theme by having a _layouts/default.html, an _includes/anchor_support.html, and a assets/css/style.scss to add anchor symbols to the left of sections (h2 tags) using the anchor-js library.

I noticed recently that the anchors were no longer appearing. After diving in a bit I noticed that the javascript wasn't even being loaded and that my custom changes were being ignored completely. What I discovered (or at least got to work) was that the minima theme's home.html and page.html template were pulling/including the theme's default.html and not my custom _layouts/default.html. After copying home and page to my own directory things seem to be working.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. See Fix custom theme files not being included pytroll/pytroll.github.io#46 for more details.
2. Download/clone https://github.com/pytroll/pytroll.github.io/tree/2186e32cbc704d6678c8c67db3b12c959333d992
3. Build the site (bundle install, bundle exec jekyll serve)
4. Open the site, view source, and notice that anchor.min.js is never included as specified in anchor_support.html.

Copying https://github.com/jekyll/minima/blob/master/_layouts/home.html and https://github.com/jekyll/minima/blob/master/_layouts/page.html to _layouts and things should work.

Expected behavior

Custom local theme files override remote theme files.

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Additional context

If this is not expected to work then I'm sorry I missed it in the README.