Alternative way to install docsy repo into themes about docsy-example HOT 3 CLOSED

The main problem with not using submodules is that it's harder to pull in the latest version of the theme, especially if it's been modified a lot from when you cloned it. It was very easy for me to update this project to point to the theme version with your feedback widget, for instance - just git submodules update --remote in my local copy.

Cloning the theme works fine, of course, but getting it as a submodule is the Hugo recommended approach for most cases.

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BTW I agree that submodules are weird but they're probably more bewildering for the theme author than the theme user, once you know that a)this is pointing to the theme repo at a specific revision and b)you can run this command to make it point to the latest version, it's pretty trivial. The one real issue you can run into with this particular theme is that it has submodules so you need to recurse it if you want to work with it locally.

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Seems like reasonable arguments for keeping things as is. I'll close this issue.

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