This is the way I’m working with Hugo:

Repository

I have a public repository in Bitbucket

Local work

Clone the repo:

git clone https://ins3cure@bitbucket.org/ins3cure/ins3cure.com.git

It is not relevant, but I’m using Visual Studio Code to work with the code.

Update the site

I’m using two directories under posts:

.
└── content
    └── posts
        └── blog
        └── htb

this way I keep separated normal “blog” posts and htb writeups (or any other category I come up with).

So to create new posts:

hugo new posts/blog/hugo-workflow.md

To test:

hugo server -D

Use the -D switch to include drafts, but remember to remove the draft tag from the front matter of the post.

Rebuild:

rm -rf ./public
hugo

This can be done with these command line options:

ppath=path/to/wherever
hugo --config=${ppath}/config.toml --cleanDestinationDir --destination=${ppath}/public

Push

Once updates are ok, update remote git repo:

git add -A
git commit -m "added a new interesting post"
git push origin master

Website updates

This happens automatically. There is a cronjob running in the server that pulls from bitbucket and syncs the /public Hugo directory with the root directory of the web site:

cd /home/user/git/ins3cure.com/
git pull
rsync -av --delete /home/user/git/ins3cure.com/public/ /web_directory/html/