How to get GitInfo for any file in a project (in a very hacky way)

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I’m making a site where I need to post the most recent update for something. While .GitInfo is there, it only works for pages in content directories.

To get around this, I mapped the file I wanted the GitInfo for to the content directory.

module:
    mounts:
      - source: file.txt
        target: content/shame/file.md

I also created a shame/_index.md file to make sure it never gets placed in the output:

---
headless: true
cascade:
    draft: false
    _build:
       render: false
       list: false
 ---

I can then reference the page via site.GetPage and access GitInfo from there.

Not the proudest code I’ve written but it works.

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