From c6df2e150a61c19d72419c9b138182057796fd84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "maul.esel" <maul.esel@go4more.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:37:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] remove leading slash from page.url and post.url

---
 lib/jekyll/page.rb | 1 +
 lib/jekyll/post.rb | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll/page.rb b/lib/jekyll/page.rb
index 2f7803d5..1adc00ad 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/page.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/page.rb
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ module Jekyll
       # sanitize url
       @url = url.split('/').reject{ |part| part =~ /^\.+$/ }.join('/')
       @url += "/" if url =~ /\/$/
+      @url.gsub!(/\A\//, '')
       @url
     end
 
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/post.rb b/lib/jekyll/post.rb
index a7afa800..7a3294de 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/post.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/post.rb
@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ module Jekyll
       # sanitize url
       @url = url.split('/').reject{ |part| part =~ /^\.+$/ }.join('/')
       @url += "/" if url =~ /\/$/
+      @url.gsub!(/\A\//, '')
       @url
     end
 

From d73841c961a568532aeb9b5193bd64731751b1d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "maul.esel" <maul.esel@go4more.de>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:15:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] always ADD a leading slash to page.url or post.url

---
 lib/jekyll/page.rb | 2 +-
 lib/jekyll/post.rb | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll/page.rb b/lib/jekyll/page.rb
index 1adc00ad..730af13f 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/page.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/page.rb
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ module Jekyll
       # sanitize url
       @url = url.split('/').reject{ |part| part =~ /^\.+$/ }.join('/')
       @url += "/" if url =~ /\/$/
-      @url.gsub!(/\A\//, '')
+      @url.gsub!(/\A([^\/])/, '/\1')
       @url
     end
 
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/post.rb b/lib/jekyll/post.rb
index 7a3294de..728ca779 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/post.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/post.rb
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ module Jekyll
       # sanitize url
       @url = url.split('/').reject{ |part| part =~ /^\.+$/ }.join('/')
       @url += "/" if url =~ /\/$/
-      @url.gsub!(/\A\//, '')
+      @url.gsub!(/\A([^\/])/, '/\1')
       @url
     end
 

From 6f28b6d432eb5f8c2262729e25dd33bdcad33366 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "maul.esel" <maul.esel@go4more.de>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:21:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] fix tests for always-present slash

---
 test/test_post.rb | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/test/test_post.rb b/test/test_post.rb
index 9fe29100..1d7b8539 100644
--- a/test/test_post.rb
+++ b/test/test_post.rb
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ class TestPost < Test::Unit::TestCase
         @post.read_yaml(@source, file)
 
         assert_equal "my_category/permalinked-post", @post.permalink
-        assert_equal "my_category", @post.dir
-        assert_equal "my_category/permalinked-post", @post.url
+        assert_equal "/my_category", @post.dir
+        assert_equal "/my_category/permalinked-post", @post.url
       end
 
       context "with CRLF linebreaks" do

From 9582a7cc846ebea3f5783f5fda13cbb444728594 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "maul.esel" <maul.esel@go4more.de>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:34:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] note leading slash in the docs

---
 site/_posts/2012-07-01-variables.md | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/site/_posts/2012-07-01-variables.md b/site/_posts/2012-07-01-variables.md
index 3188ec28..e4251e49 100644
--- a/site/_posts/2012-07-01-variables.md
+++ b/site/_posts/2012-07-01-variables.md
@@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ following is a reference of the available data.
       <td><p><code>page.url</code></p></td>
       <td><p>
 
-        The URL of the Post without the domain. e.g.
+        The URL of the Post without the domain, but
+        with a leading slash, e.g.
         <code>/2008/12/14/my-post.html</code>
 
       </p></td>