Deploying a Themeforest Hugo theme to Netlify using a submodule

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Hi, I have set up continuous deployment of my Hugo site to Netlify via Git with a theme I purchased from Themeforest. I copied the theme into the route of the Hugo folder (not inside a themes folder).

Everything works fine but when I try to configure the base URL in config.toml, I get an error:

: exit status 128: fatal: No url found for submodule path "tidygizmo" in .gitmodules
: exit status 128

2:30:04 PM: Error checking out submodules: fatal: No url found for submodule path "tidygizmo" in .gitmodules
: exit status 128

From what I understand, installing a theme using a submodule is best and may correct the issue but the developer doesn’t have the theme on GIT and this is a requirement for adding a theme using a submodule, as far as I’m aware. I assume because it’s a premium theme.

I’ve read about people ‘mirroring’ the theme but don’t know how to do this or if it will fix the problem.

Any support would be much appreciated.

Cheers

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Extract the theme in Hugo’s theme folder then add it to your config. You will need to add any future updates manually.

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I see. Thanks Arif. I’ll give that a go…