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More details needed with the existing isntructions #4

Closed ovizii closed 7 years ago

ovizii commented 7 years ago

So I installed Hugo into my sandstorm instance, created a new Hugo grain and I now get instructions to:

To check out the Git repository containing your site, first add an authorization key to Git: ... and Then run the following to start with a fresh site: ...

Now I am wondering where to run these commands? At this point in time, I would like to create a new site, I don't have any site and no git repository.

I checked for apps on sandstorm that could work and found: Gogs, Gitweb and GitLab. Would I be able to run any of these 3 on the same Sandstorm instance and host my Hugo website code there?

ocdtrekkie commented 7 years ago

The Hugo app is your Git repository. The instructions in the app are to clone it to your computer so you can edit it.

ovizii commented 7 years ago

ok, thanks, starting to make slightly more sense to me :-) so without having a linux pc somewhere to use git I can't use Hugo?

Found this part in its description, hence my question (I was wondering about the web-based interface I couldn't find):

Updates and themes can be pushed directly to an embedded Git repository, or can be edited via a web-based administrative interface.

ocdtrekkie commented 7 years ago

Git should work on a Windows PC or Mac, I am unsure if the commands will work as-is on other platforms as I didn't test it and don't know Git well. The web-based administrative interface has some bugs. It's useful, but for instance, right now editing your config file in the web-based interface will break your site.

ovizii commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the pointers, I'll do some more reading up :-)