Symlinks for post thumbnail in 0.123

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I’m using a symlink to a post thumbnail image. That way I can keep the name of the thumbnail consistent and change the thumbnail by creating a symlink that points to a different file. This doesn’t work anymore, after update to 0.123 - Hugo just doesn’t pick up the thumbnail that’s a symlink. Is it because of this change Remove symlink support for the input files · Issue #11556 · gohugoio/hugo · GitHub?

If so, is there still a way to do this, or do I have to abandon symlinks completely for this scenario? Would mounts help me in any way in this case? I’m not sure what problem mounts solve.

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Yes, you do.

Maybe, depends on the scenario.

A mount maps a directory, and in some cases a file, to Hugo’s virtual file system. It’s conceptually similar to a symlink, without all the baggage described in https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/11556.

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@jmooring thank you!

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