a cleaned public folder?

[David Kebler]

I've noticed as I move things around, change names and bring things in and out of the static folder that Hugo does not clear the public folder of this "old stuff".

I've resorted to deleting it on occasion just to "start anew".

Is there a config line to tell it to keep the directory clean?  If not can that be in a future version.  Not the end of the world here but I can imagine for folks I''d be setting Hugo up to use this would be confusing or at least irritating to them.   Sorry if I was a go coder I'd just make a pull request....maybe I will become one if it turns out I can't live without Hugo :-).

[Leon Paternoster]

+1 this. Causes some head scratching during the first few builds.

[Steve Francia]

It would be easy to write, but not sure it's the "correct" answer... For people with large sets of static, I would rather make the default a more intelligent sync than we have now. We could offer a "clean" option in addition to this, but I don't think it should be the default. Please file an issue on github and we'll get to it at some point. 

Best,

Steve

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[David Kebler]

Ok, will do.   By clean I mean clean out "old" files/directories no longer part of the build. 

  

BTW I had to scrub the whole public directory to get hugo to overwritie everything after a baseURL change and sometimes when I do this hugo doesn't rewrite the static stuff.  Might be more about being on "watch". I have taken to just doing a manual run in this case rather than depending on the watch.

While I am on this related topic (changing baseurl)  if the hugo command line could specify the config file then together with the -d swtich I could write batch commands one for development and one for production.    Or maybe there is a more elegant solution for the development/production issue.

[Nate Finch]

I agree that hugo needs to clean up after itself.  

I made an issue here: https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/379

[Weston McNamee]

I wrote this powershell function, which would need to be customized to exclude other files that hugo would not generate:

function hugo-clean-rebuild {

    if(-not (test-path 'config.yaml')) {

        write-warning "current directory does not appear to be a hugo site directory."

        return

    }

    gci -path .\public -exclude ".git", "readme.md" | %{ rm $_ -recurse }

    hugo

}

maybe that will help you (if on windows)