I found out that my current setup doesn’t allow for easy theme updates by the author, since I just cloned the theme folder into my hugo project ⊙﹏⊙

But thanks to Adam and his introduction to gits submodule function I was able to work around this.

Create repositories #

• First I created a repository for my hugo project
• Then I created a fork of my current theme Terminal
• The theme was then embedded as submodule in my hugo project and received a second git repository as upstream source (this is the magic function right here)

git submodule add -f https://github.com/<user>/hugo-theme-terminal.git themes/terminal
git remote add upstream https://github.com/panr/hugo-theme-terminal.git

• I also followed Adams advise and moved my theme customizations to a different branch

Get updates from the theme author #

My workflow for theme updates now looks like this:

• Changes to my customized theme will be added on the live branch
• Official updates to the theme will be synced to the master branch and merged to live on demand

# from ./theme/terminal
git checkout master
git pull upstream master
git push origin master

git checkout live
git merge master

I’m still not using Github pages for publishing, I kind of can’t let go of my trustworthy VPS.