Hello all, To get portable last modified dates for my pages, I set enableGitInfo to true in my configuration. My whole site project is managed via git. However, when starting hugo or hugo server, I get the following error message: Start building sites … hugo v0.157.0-7747abbb316b03c8f353fd3be62…

You could try git fetch --all, but I’d probably do a fresh clone.

What is the result of each command? git version git cat-file -t 600eff68038faba92f7ee6314b1ee0dcca2692c1 git fsck --missing git rev-parse --is-shallow-repository

$ git version git version 2.53.0 $ git cat-file -t 600eff68038faba92f7ee6314b1ee0dcca2692c1 fatal: git cat-file: could not get object info $ git fsck Checking ref database: 100% (1/1), done. Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done. error: 600eff68038faba92f7ee6314b1ee0dcca2692c1: invalid s…

The above assumes your remote is up-to-date.

Thank you @jmooring , a full fresh close from the remote solved the issue. I was lucky enough for the remote to be fully intact. :sweat_smile: The git commands you mentioned will also help me in the future to track down similar issues. :folded_hands:

enableGitInfo "failed to load Git data"

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