Hi. Is there a way to prevent hugo from copying static file if they already exists? When I lauch hugo server, my site take about 2 minutes to build. I have got a lot of images, and thumbnails of this images, so there are like 1750 static files, a lot of wich do never change. I launch the server wi…

Prevent static file copy if not needed in dev mode

lamyseba May 10, 2019, 10:57am 3

This happen on the initial build. Rebuild time is a lot shorter. The options --noChmod and--noTimes didn’t help to shorten the initial build time.

Summary strange behavior

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Prevent static file copy if not needed in dev mode

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