From 069e70d1b3dd2a21d4c36f2eecb677362b7384a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "maul.esel" <maul.esel@go4more.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:25:47 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] do not override custom excerpt set in YAML frontmatter

Fixes #933.
---
 lib/jekyll/post.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll/post.rb b/lib/jekyll/post.rb
index 50fd983c..2def58ed 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/post.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/post.rb
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ module Jekyll
     # Returns nothing.
     def read_yaml(base, name)
       super(base, name)
-      self.excerpt = self.extract_excerpt
+      self.excerpt = self.data["excerpt"] || self.extract_excerpt
       self.data['layout'] = 'post' unless self.data.has_key?('layout')
     end