hugo/docs/content/en/variables/git.md

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{{% note %}} Hugo's Git integrations should be fairly performant but can increase your build time. This will depend on the size of your Git history. {{% /note %}}

.GitInfo prerequisites

1. The Hugo site must be in a Git-enabled directory.
2. The Git executable must be installed and in your system PATH.
3. The .GitInfo feature must be enabled in your Hugo project by passing --enableGitInfo flag on the command line or by setting enableGitInfo to true in your site's configuration file.

The .GitInfo object

The GitInfo object contains the following fields:

.AbbreviatedHash

the abbreviated commit hash (e.g., 866cbcc)

.AuthorName

the author's name, respecting .mailmap

.AuthorEmail

the author's email address, respecting .mailmap

.AuthorDate

the author date

.Hash

the commit hash (e.g., 866cbccdab588b9908887ffd3b4f2667e94090c3)

.Subject

commit message subject (e.g., tpl: Add custom index function)

.Lastmod

If the .GitInfo feature is enabled, .Lastmod (on Page) is fetched from Git i.e. .GitInfo.AuthorDate. This behavior can be changed by adding your own front matter configuration for dates.

Hosting considerations

On the site host, your repository must be "deep-cloned," so the returned .GitInfo data will be accurate. Otherwise, your site may display only data from your latest commit. Where it's not possible to configure a host's cloning depth, you must handle this through CI/CD (e.g., a GitHub Action or GitLab CI/CD). See the following table:

Hosting service	Clone depth	Configurable?
Cloudflare Pages	Shallow	✔️ 1
DigitalOcean App Platform	Deep	❌
GitHub Pages	Shallow	✔️ 2
GitLab Pages	Shallow	✔️ 3
Netlify	Deep	❌
Render	Shallow	❌
Vercel	Shallow	❌

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1. To configure a Cloudflare Pages site for deep cloning, preface the site's normal Hugo build command with git fetch --unshallow && (e.g., git fetch --unshallow && hugo). ↩︎

2. You can configure the GitHub Action to do a deep clone by specifying fetch-depth: 0 in the applicable "checkout" step of your workflow file, as shown in the Hugo documentation's example workflow file. ↩︎

3. You can configure the GitLab Runner's clone depth as explained in the GitLab documentation; see also the Hugo documentation's example workflow file. ↩︎