Using Gitinfo With Hugo
The idea of being able to access git info from Hugo templates is an alluring one. I wanted to list out all the updates from the commit messages to save doing it manually on the front page. Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way.
The {{ .GitInfo }} object in Hugo is purely for use on content files. It provides info from that page’s last commit message and info only. It works in line with {{ .Lastmod }} which shows the time/date a page was last modified. With .GitInfo you can add the author name, author’s email, the commit message, the hash and an abbreviated hash.
So unfortunately there is no {{ .Site.GitInfo }} to get a full list of changes.
If you want to use it in content pages add something like:
1{{ with .GitInfo }}
2This page was last updated on {{ .Lastmod.Format "2 Jan 2006" }} by {{ .Author }}. The commit message states: {{ .Subject }}.
3{{ end }}}}
Unlike .GitInfo the .Lastmod can be used with .Site to get the last update of the whole site. Just use {{ .Site.Lastmod.Format "02/01/06" }} replacing the date formatting with however you would prefer it.
There is also .LastChange which the docs say:
.Site.LastChange – a string representing the date/time of the most recent change to your site. This string is based on the date variable in the front matter of your content pages.