Does Hugo ignore commented-out data from local data source?

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I use Hugo’s data sources to render certain information on the website.

I store a project/data/my_data.toml and I include the information I want Hugo to render later. If I comment-out some data in the toml file (as a proxy to “draft mode”) would Hugo ignore those? Or would they appear somehow in the deployment? For example, I can see that the HTML isn’t rendering those (not even as commented out code) but I am not sure if the file my_data.toml would appear in the deployment?

My concern basically is “I have some data that I don’t want to appear publicly yet”, does commenting out the data in the TOML file prevent Hugo from “leaking” them? My understanding is that Hugo isn’t deploying the raw my_data.toml file anywhere nor it will render commented-out code.

Thanks!

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data files are not published.

only used values will be in the rendered pages.

comments in TOML files are stripped when parsing.

ofc your sources need to be private

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