Merge pull request #1443 from ddavison/detachment

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site/docs/configuration.md

@@ -220,6 +220,16 @@ before your site is served.
         <p><code class="flag">--baseurl URL</code></p>
       </td>
     </tr>
+    <tr class='setting'>
+      <td>
+        <p class='name'><strong>Detach</strong></p>
+        <p class='description'>Detach the server from the terminal</p>
+      </td>
+      <td class="align-center">
+        <p><code class="option">detach: BOOL</code></p>
+        <p><code class="flag">-B, --detach</code></p>
+      </td>
+    </tr>
   </tbody>
 </table>
 </div>

site/docs/usage.md

@@ -31,8 +31,13 @@ preview what the generated site will look like in your browser locally.
 $ jekyll serve
 # => A development server will run at http://localhost:4000/
 
+$ jekyll serve --detach
+# => Same as `jekyll serve` but will detach from the current terminal.
+#    If you need to kill the server, you can `kill -9 1234` where "1234" is the PID.
+#    If you cannot find the PID, then do, `ps aux | grep jekyll` and kill the instance. [Read more](http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/shell/jobz5.html).
+
 $ jekyll serve --watch
-# => As above, but watch for changes and regenerate automatically.
+# => Same as `jekyll serve`, but watch for changes and regenerate automatically.
 {% endhighlight %}
 
 This is just a few of the available [configuration options](../configuration/).