Are there any advantages to using Go Modules vs git submodule for something like installing a theme? Wondering what the recommended way is going forward. Asking from two perspectives: Should I migrate existing sites to use Modules (if the theme is set up correctly for go modules)? Should the Quick…

Go modules require golang be installed, where git submodules just require git. After that I think it’s preference. Well, hugo modules are dope as hell. That’s also for consideration. :sunglasses: I prefer remembering to hugo mod init on each project than recalling the git submodules commands, as I…

Thanks, been looking over the Modules docs but missed that. I’m sure there’s a lot of users that install hugo without installing golang, if documenting something I’ll prob go the git submodule way. Yea, I’m in the same boat with occasional use of many things, actually the reason for the new site th…

[image] maiki: Go modules require golang be installed, While that is true for when you’re doing “theme development”, once it is stable you can do “hugo mod vendor”. We do that for the Hugo Docs and the Hugo Themes site (we only have one module there, the theme, but the concept is valid), wh…

Thanks for the heads up, I’m that much closer to grokking modules. I suppose I could go hunting on GitHub for repos with modules, I haven’t seen many examples in the wild, so nearly everything I’ve learned is from one of your example repos or a comment here; slow and steady. :snail:

Go Modules vs git submodule?

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