Quick start makes Hugo seem dependent on git and GitHub

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It’s mentioned in the very beginning of the tutorial:

You also need Git installed to run this tutorial.

That said, if you don’t want to use git, you can:

  1. Download the quick start theme Ananke’s zip file: https://github.com/budparr/gohugo-theme-ananke/archive/master.zip
  2. Extract it somewhere.
  3. If the directory containing the site’s config.toml is foo, then you create foo/themes.
  4. Copy the extracted zip to foo/theme/ananke/ directory. Here things can go wrong if the directory nesting is not correct.

It’s just better to install Git for Windows and run the suggested git commands.

PS: GitHub is an online service to host git repos whereas git is a free and open source software available on all OSes.

GitHub happens to ship its Desktop software with git installation as part of it. If you are using Windows and not familiar with git at all, it’s best to install the GitHub for Windows. But don’t confuse GitHub with git :slight_smile: