media relative path is force overwritten when `include.subpath` is nil

[musicaudience]

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Generated from chirpy-starter

Describe the bug

file: _includes/media-url.html
line number: 18
code snippet:

{% assign url = include.subpath | default: '' | append: '/' | append: url %}

issue: if include.subpath is nil or empty string, and url is a relative path, e.g. path/to/file , the code will force overwrite url to absolute path /path/to/file , which will leads image url error to plugins like jekyll-postfiles.

Steps To Reproduce

see Describe the bug

Expected Behavior

don't try to force overwrite user's path type(absolute or relative).

Environment

• Ruby: ruby 3.3.7 (2025-01-15 revision be31f993d7) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
• Jekyll: jekyll 4.4.1
• Chirpy: jekyll-theme-chirpy (7.3.1)

Anything else?

No response

[rafisics]

A relevant issue, I suppose:

I am getting an error (ERROR '/chirpy-test/chirpy-test/assets/images/posts/20190808/devices-mockup.png' not found.) on my /_posts/2019-08-08-text-and-typography.md because of this update: 1bac96a.

[kungfux]

It might be helpful to provide an example of relative path usage.

[musicaudience]

@kungfux with relative path,

• review markdown static contents (picture, pdf...) locally while editing by using vscode or typora.
• avoid error prone uri prefix to the /assets/... path, which is repeated several times in all posts.
• make jekyll plugin works: jekyll-postfiles; jekyll-asset-path-plugin

[github-actions]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 7.4.0 🎉

The release is available on:

• v7.4.0
• GitHub release

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[cotes2020]

@musicaudience I'll revert the changes I made for this requirement (#2552), because when a CDN and a base URL are set, relative resource paths like path/to/file become logically ambiguous, which makes writing Markdown more cumbersome.

... review markdown static contents (picture, pdf...) locally while editing by using vscode or typora.

If you want to preview the rendered output in real time, just open the local webpage.