I’m building a simple archetype for blog posts on my site. The directory structure is straightforward, with an index.md file in the root alongside an images folder that will contain images. I want the images directory to be created empty when I run hugo new --type blogpost but so far it only creates the index.md.
Am I missing something here or is this a bug? Looking at the docs I’d expect this to work.
You can see the current state of the archetype and the generated files in the following picture:
I’m running Hugo v 0.51 on OSX (latest at time of writing).
The example has a file in the images directory. We don’t create empty directories. Maybe we should, but I didn’t think about that use case. Create a GitHub issue and someone will consider it.
That’s a very good point. In the meantime is there a benign file I can put in there to ‘anchor’ it for both git and Hugo?
(The reason I mentioned the docs is because they state “[this] Will create a new folder in /content/post/my-post with the same set of files as in the post-bundle archetypes folder” although I realize reading it now it does say files and not folders.)
