Which folders to upload when hosting hugo website on Github?

[vishalkr]

I have created a blog using Hugo and hosting it on GitHub — Posts | Curioage . I am confused about which folders I should upload. For now, I have uploaded everything, but I think just uploading the public folder is sufficient. Any suggestions?

GitHub: GitHub - curioage/curioage-blog: My Blog

[irkode]

looking at your repo, there’s an action to build and publish your site. (last run 8month ago matching the last commit). So seems your online version is published with the action.

Then it’s just the other way round: Store the sources only and not the generated files.

1. clean up your repo

   git rm -rf public/
   git rm .hugo_build.lock
   

2. looks like you don’t use git submodules. You mioght want to clean that up:

   git submodule deinit --all
   rm .gitmodules
   

3. add a .gitignore file to exclude all generated stuff

   public/
   resources/
   .hugo_build.lock
   

4. commit this to clean up the remote

   git add -A
   git commit -m "cleanup repository"
   git push
   

5. align your Hugo versions to be the same locally and remote

• last local build was with 0.123.7
• your site is published with 0.137.1 (defined in the workflow)