Updated sidebar documentation to clarify nesting (#626)

The documentation for how to create nested sidebars was unclear, and I could not find it anywhere else. After experimenting, I discovered the tactic and felt it should be in the docs.
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Ciel 2018-09-17 04:19:31 -05:00 committed by cinwell.li
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You need to create a `.nojekyll` in `./docs` to prevent GitHub Pages from ignoring files that begin with an underscore.
## Nested Sidebars
You may want the sidebar to update with only navigation to reflect the current directory. This can be done by adding a `_sidebar.md` file to each folder.
`_sidebar.md` is loaded from each level directory. If the current directory doesn't have `_sidebar.md`, it will fall back to the parent directory. If, for example, the current path is `/guide/quick-start`, the `_sidebar.md` will be loaded from `/guide/_sidebar.md`.
You can specify `alias` to avoid unnecessary fallback.
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!> You can create a `README.md` file in a subdirectory to use it as the landing page for the route.
## Table of Contents
Once you've created `_sidebar.md`, the sidebar content is automatically generated based on the headers in the markdown files.