https://www.jwogrady.com/tags/submodules/ Recent content in submodules on jwogrady Hugo en-us Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:42:00 -0500 https://www.jwogrady.com/posts/project-layouts-shadow-theme/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:42:00 -0500 https://www.jwogrady.com/posts/project-layouts-shadow-theme/ <pre tabindex="0"><code>$ git submodule add https://github.com/jwogrady/hugo-spectrum themes/hugo-spectrum </code></pre><p>Submodule rather than Hugo Modules, because Modules wants a <code>go.mod</code> and this theme doesn&rsquo;t ship one. The submodule pins a commit, which means a checkout a year from now builds the same site as today. I like that property a lot.</p> <p>Then I rebuilt and got my own handmade templates back.</p> <p>The scaffold <code>baseof.html</code> and <code>page.html</code> I&rsquo;d written an hour earlier were still sitting in <code>layouts/</code>, and <strong>a project file at the same path beats the theme&rsquo;s entirely.</strong> Not merged, not layered — replaced. Five files were quietly overriding a theme I&rsquo;d just installed, and the build was perfectly happy about it.</p>