Hrm. Another question for #Hugo (or #Jekyll really) users:
So you add a new News post. You go to upload. Uh. What files do you ACTUALLY upload?
In principle the answer is "well the new ones silly", but when your static site includes say, a Tag and a search system, how on earth do you know which changed and select only them?
Lately I just FTP up the whole folder, overwriting everything, and I feel like an idiot 😭 (or am I valid? maybe?)
@glassbottommeg you can use Cyberduck (on any similar tool) to synchronize both your local folder and your FTP, thus uploading only what’s actually needed.
Or you can go the devops route and configure a GitHub repo to do it automatically for you (either via GitHub Pages if #jekyll or GitHub Actions).
@glassbottommeg i'd probably incorporate it into version control and have the site be a clean checkout (minus the repo files). dunno what the path of least friction there is for non web techy people, but i think the answer is in rsync somewhere and then you can just put that command in a .bat or something
@ari so yes, I've got it version controlled (well the not generated part anyways), but yeah the issue is still not having an easy way to upload just the new parts to my webhost hosting the generated page.
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