Hugo --cleanDestinationDir and Git Submodules

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:20:39 -0400

Recently I’ve been working on updating my blog a bit (you might have noticed?). I keep the hugo sources in a git repository and the built site in a separate repository. That repository is added as a submodule to the sources repo and during the build, the generated HTML is written into the submodule. Except the submodule kept getting messed up; git would be unable to track the changes or they’d be added to the parent repository. It was truly maddening, but as it is so often, the problem was not git but me.

Maven Release Plugin and Git 1.9

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:59:40 -0400

Ran into this issue today and wasted a good hour on figuring out what happened. Seems to be an issue with Git 1.9.x.

Symptoms

Maven release plugin successfully completes the release:prepare goal, creates the tag, but fails to commit the changed pom.xml.

Solution

Git’s output format changed slightly in one of the recent versions and Maven’s SCM provider expects output in a certain way. Luckily you can force git to use the old output style:

Git on ilikeorangutans

Hugo --cleanDestinationDir and Git Submodules

Maven Release Plugin and Git 1.9

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