HUGO-IMPORT(1)

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💅 HUGO-IMPORT(1) — the hugo import glow-up guide ✨

ok so you're reading the HUGO-IMPORT(1) page from the Hugo Manual, bestie, and honestly? it's giving "let's steal your old site's whole vibe and bring it into Hugo." let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

hugo-import — literally the tool that imports a project from another system. that's the whole job. no cap. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

hugo import [command] [flags]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so, hugo import imports a project from another system. iconic behaviour, honestly. 🔥

but here's the tea: import requires a subcommand. it can't do the thing solo — it needs a main character subcommand to tell it what to import. the manual's own example is:

hugo import jekyll jekyll_root_path target_path

so yeah — subcommand first, then the paths, and then you're slaying. 💅

🍓 OPTIONS 🍓

  • -h, --help[=false] — help for import. the "what does this even do" button, but make it cute. 💖

👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

these ones get handed down from the parent commands like the world's most useful hand-me-downs. every single one, no skips: 🌈

  • --clock="" — set the clock used by Hugo, e.g. --clock 2021-11-06T22:30:00.00+09:00. yes, you can time-travel your build. 😭
  • --config="" — config file (default is hugo.yaml|json|toml).
  • --configDir="config" — config dir. that's it, that's the whole thing.
  • -d, --destination="" — filesystem path to write files to.
  • -e, --environment="" — build environment.
  • --ignoreVendorPaths="" — ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern. very "not my problem" energy. 🙈
  • --logLevel="" — log level (debug|info|warn|error).
  • --noBuildLock[=false] — don't create .hugo_build.lock file.
  • --quiet[=false] — build in quiet mode. shhhh 🤫
  • -M, --renderToMemory[=false] — render to memory (mostly useful when running the server).
  • -s, --source="" — filesystem path to read files relative from.
  • --themesDir="" — filesystem path to themes directory.

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

go read these next, bestie, they're the friends of this page:

ngl the second one is lowkey the star of the show — it's the actual subcommand example from up in DESCRIPTION. iykyk 🧚

okay that's the whole page!! mwah 💋 this was Hugo 0.169.0, dated Oct 2026 — written in the HUGO-IMPORT(1) era and honestly it ate. go import something and text me about it 💜✨

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