HUGO-DEPLOY(1)

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💖 HUGO-DEPLOY(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Hugo Manual page for hugo-deploy ✨ this is the one that sends your whole project off to a cloud provider, and honestly? it's giving main character energy 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

hugo-deploy — Deploy your project to a cloud provider 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hugo deploy [flags] [args]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Deploy your project to a cloud provider. periodt. 💁‍♀️

lowkey if you want the detailed documentation (and you know you do), it's literally right here, no cap:

https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hugo-deploy/

like, go read it bestie, it's iconic 🔥

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --confirm[=false] — asks for confirmation before making changes to the target 🙈 like a little "u sure bestie?" before it touches anything
  • --dryRun[=false] — dry run 💀 it does the whole thing without actually committing, vibe check only
  • --force[=false] — force upload of all files 👑 no skipping, everything goes up
  • -h, --help[=false] — help for deploy 🫶 the classic "what does this even do" button
  • --invalidateCDN[=true] — invalidate the CDN cache listed in the deployment target ⭐ defaults to true, so it's doing this unless you say otherwise
  • --maxDeletes=256 — maximum # of files to delete, or -1 to disable 🌈 (yes, literally -1 turns the limit off entirely)
  • --target="" — target deployment from the deployments section in the config file; defaults to the first one 🎯 empty string means "just pick the first one bestie"
  • --workers=10 — number of workers to transfer files. defaults to 10 🧚 multitasking queen behavior

💜 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 💜

these come from the parent command, and they're all super useful so don't skip them:

  • --clock="" — set the clock used by Hugo, e.g. --clock 2021-11-06T22:30:00.00+09:00 ⏰ time travel fr fr
  • --config="" — config file (default is hugo.yaml|json|toml) 📄
  • --configDir="config" — config dir 📁 defaults to config, cute
  • -d, --destination="" — filesystem path to write files to 🗂️
  • -e, --environment="" — build environment 🌍
  • --ignoreVendorPaths="" — ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern 🙅‍♀️ like "not me dealing with vendor stuff"
  • --logLevel="" — log level (debug|info|warn|error) 📊 pick your vibe
  • --noBuildLock[=false] — don't create .hugo_build.lock file 🔓 no lock file, living dangerously
  • --quiet[=false] — build in quiet mode 🤫 shhh
  • -M, --renderToMemory[=false] — render to memory (mostly useful when running the server) 🧠 in your brain, literally
  • -s, --source="" — filesystem path to read files relative from 📂
  • --themesDir="" — filesystem path to themes directory 🎨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • hugo(1) — the main character herself 👑

okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💅✨

sign-off vibes: this is from Hugo 0.169.0, dated Oct 2026 — so yes, we're literally in the future and it's still iconic 🫶🎀

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