Using Git Submodules with Local Overrides

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Managing your own libraries as Git submodules can be awkward: normally, you'd have to push and pull between different directories to keep everything in sync.

But there's a handy trick: keep the submodule pointing at your public remote (for others who clone your project), while locally overriding the submodule's URL to use your own local checkout. This way you get fast iteration, and others still have a smooth experience.

Auto-Deploy Hugo from Github

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:17:46 +0000

GitHub is pretty good with out-of-box options for auto-deploying Hugo or Jekyll sites to GitHub Pages. But say you have your own VPS (e.g. Linode) - you can still take advantage of GitHub Actions which is a surprisingly versatile piece of CI/CD automation to rival anything you can do on the big cloud providers.

Or, if you just want to deploy to GitHub Pages, the out-of-box workflows that GitHub will create for you in the UI will hard-code a few things that you really don't want hard-coded, such as the Hugo version (you always want to take advantage of the most recent dot-release, for security reasons if nothing else.) I have provided an example below that should remedy this issue.

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Using Git Submodules with Local Overrides

Introduction

Auto-Deploy Hugo from Github