title: Does pages.github.com support directory names with a preceeding . (dot)?
body: <p>I am using a Maven plugin (jacoco-maven-plugin) which generates a site report whose images and css files are in a folder with a preceeding . (dot) in the name.  For example: /site/jacoco/.resources/report.css</p>
  
  <p>When I publish this to my pages.github.com site (using site-maven-plugin), everything is there in my special Github branch (gh-pages).</p>
  
  <p>However, I'm getting 404's when trying to access resources that are in folders with a preceding . (dot) in the folder name.</p>
  
  <p>A simplified example:<br>
  <a href="https://github.com/justinhrobbins/FlashCards_App/blob/gh-pages/test/.resources/index.html" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/justinhrobbins/FlashCards_App/blob/gh-pages/test/.resources/index.html</a></p>
  
  <p>When I try to access this in my browser i get a 404:<br>
  <a href="http://justinhrobbins.github.io/FlashCards_App/test/.resources/index.html" rel="noreferrer">http://justinhrobbins.github.io/FlashCards_App/test/.resources/index.html</a></p>
  
  <p>However, if I remove the . (dot) from the folder name it works fine:<br>
  <a href="https://github.com/justinhrobbins/FlashCards_App/blob/gh-pages/test/resources/index.html" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/justinhrobbins/FlashCards_App/blob/gh-pages/test/resources/index.html</a><br>
  <a href="http://justinhrobbins.github.io/FlashCards_App/test/resources/index.html" rel="noreferrer">http://justinhrobbins.github.io/FlashCards_App/test/resources/index.html</a></p>
  
  <p>So I'm assuming pages.github.com doesn't support preceeding dot in the folder name (and Googling shows using a preceeding dot may not be a recommended practice anyway) but would appreciate confirmation.</p>
  
  <p>Edit: FYI - when i publish similar to Tomcat it works even with folders with preceeding dot in name</p>