[arch1e]

> I'd want to keep the build step since I may pull markdown from other sources like I think astra allows.

Pushing without building is not a difficult thing to do, in-fact it will make changes much faster too. But you mention pulling markdown files from other places, merge conflicts are bound to happen that way right? And AFAICS there would not be an easy way to manage that automagically without human intervention.

[nprateem]

No I think it'd be enough to have them separate to avoid merge conflicts.

It could probably be done in a separate step or something so users can edit files once they've been pulled in from other sources, at which point the repo becomes the source of truth.