Fearless Website Updates With Hugo Managing dependencies, reviewing generated HTML, diffing staged changes in 0.3 seconds.

You’re right! I forgot about that. I adopted hvm, and now I can just hvm use latest && git add .hvm && ./review_staged_changes.sh. The selected Hugo version is now version-controlled, and my script can stash it just like any other change. Cool

I have updated my website and described this trick too

This is a big productivity win, At that speed, feedback stays instant, which makes iterative development and code reviews far smoother.

Fearless Website Updates With Hugo

tips & tricks

McShelby December 14, 2025, 11:16am 2

# (manually update Hugo to the new version)

With jmoorings great hvm this step can easily integrated into your automation.

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Fearless Website Updates With Hugo

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