Any externals involved like. Node npm dart sass, ruby …
U may setup a fresh os in a vm
And just for fun wrong branch…? Maybe compare stuff in the remote repo
there’s also a --gc switch for garbage collect
did you manually delete the caches on windows I have two possible locations.
%APPDATA%\go-build
%APPDATA%\go-cache
and I would stick with the original version of hugo - upgraded hugo may behave different.
and I suppose you did that all (git co, and build) also in a pure shell without vscode or other stuff involved.
what about hugo without server…and check generated files…