HUGO-MOD-GET(1)

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okay bestie, welcome to the Hugo Manual entry for hugo-mod-get, and honestly? this one's a whole vibe. it's the command that goes and figures out all your dependencies for you. slay.

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✨ NAME ✨

hugo-mod-get — resolves dependencies in your current Hugo project 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

hugo mod get [flags] [args]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Resolves dependencies in your current Hugo project. lowkey its whole personality.

Some examples, because examples are the moment:

Install the latest version possible for a given module:

hugo mod get github.com/gohugoio/testshortcodes

Install a specific version:

hugo mod get github.com/gohugoio/testshortcodes@v0.3.0

Install the latest versions of all direct module dependencies:

hugo mod get
hugo mod get ./... (recursive)

Install the latest versions of all module dependencies (direct and indirect — yes, both, no cap):

hugo mod get -u
hugo mod get -u ./... (recursive)

Run go help get for more information. All flags available for go get is also relevant here. iykyk 🫶

⭐ heads up bestie: Hugo will always start out by resolving the components defined in the project configuration, provided by a _vendor directory (if no --ignoreVendorPaths flag provided), Go Modules, or a folder inside the themes directory, in that order. the order matters, don't come for me 💅

See https://gohugo.io/hugo-modules/ for more information.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help[=false] — help for get 🌈

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👑 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 👑

these are the hand-me-downs from the parent command and they ate, fr fr:

• --clock="" — set the clock used by Hugo, e.g. --clock 2021-11-06T22:30:00.00+09:00 ⏰
• --config="" — config file (default is hugo.yaml|json|toml)
• --configDir="config" — config dir
• -d, --destination="" — filesystem path to write files to
• -e, --environment="" — build environment
• --ignoreVendorPaths="" — ignores any _vendor for module paths matching the given Glob pattern 🙈
• --logLevel="" — log level (debug|info|warn|error)
• --noBuildLock[=false] — don't create .hugo_build.lock file
• --quiet[=false] — build in quiet mode 🤫
• -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

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• hugo-mod(1) — go say hi to the whole mod family, they're iconic

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