We hope to continue to make improvements to the theme along with the Docsy community.
If you have cloned the example site (or are otherwise using the theme as a Hugo Module or Git submodule), you can easily update the Docsy theme in your site yourself. If you have cloned the theme itself into your own project you can also update, though you may need to resolve merge conflicts.
Updating Docsy means that your site will build using the latest version of Docsy at HEAD and include
all the new commits or changes that have been merged since the point in time that you initially added the Docsy
submodule, or last updated. Updating won’t affect any modifications that you made in your own project to
override the Docsy look and feel, as your overrides
don’t modify the theme itself. For details about what has changed in the theme since your last update, see the list of
Docsy commits.
If you have been using the theme as a Git submodule, you can also update your site to use Docsy as a Hugo Module. This is the latest and simplest way to pull in a Hugo theme from its repository. If you’re not ready to migrate to Hugo Modules yet, don’t worry, your site will still work and you can continue to update your submodule as before.
1 - Update your Docsy Hugo Module
Update your Docsy theme to the latest version using Hugo Modules.
When using the Docsy theme as a Hugo Module, updating your theme is really easy.
At the command prompt, change to the root directory of your existing site.
cd /path/to/my-existing-site
Then invoke hugo’s module get subcommand with the update flag:
hugo mod get -u github.com/google/docsy
Hugo automatically pulls in the latest theme version. That’s it, your update is
done!
Tip
If you want to set your module to a certain version inside the Docsy theme repo,
simply specify the name of the tag representing this version when updating your
theme, for example:
hugo mod get -u github.com/google/docsy@v0.10.0
Instead of a version tag, you can also specify a commit hash, for example:
hugo mod get -u github.com/google/docsy@6c8a3afe
2 - Update Docsy without Hugo Modules
Update the Docsy theme to the latest version using submodules or git pull.
If you aren’t using Hugo Modules, depending on how you chose to install Docsy on your existing site, use one of the following two procedures to update your theme.
Push the commit to your project repo. For example, run:
git push origin master
Route 2: Update your Docsy clone
If you cloned the Docsy theme into
the themes folder in your project, then you use the git pull command:
Navigate to the themes directory in your local project:
cd themes
Ensure that origin is set to https://github.com/quatm/quatm.git:
git remote -v
Update your local clone:
git pull origin master
If you have made any local changes to the cloned theme, you must manually resolve any merge conflicts.
3 - Migrate to Hugo Modules
Convert an existing site to use Docsy as a Hugo Module
TL;DR: Conversion for the impatient expert
Run the following from the command line:
cd /path/to/my-existing-site
hugo mod init github.com/me-at-github/my-existing-site
hugo mod get github.com/google/docsy@v0.10.0
sed -i '/theme = \["docsy"\]/d' config.toml
mv config.toml hugo.toml
cat >> hugo.toml <<EOL
[module]
proxy = "direct"
[[module.imports]]
path = "github.com/google/docsy"
EOLhugo server
cd my-existing-site
hugo mod init github.com/me-at-github/my-existing-site
hugo mod get github.com/google/docsy@v0.10.0
findstr /v /c:"theme = [\"docsy\"]" config.toml > hugo.toml
(echo [module]^
proxy = "direct"^
[[module.imports]]^
path = "github.com/google/docsy")>>hugo.toml
hugo server
Detailed conversion instructions
Import the Docsy theme module as a dependency of your site
At the command prompt, change to the root directory of your existing site.
cd /path/to/my-existing-site
Only sites that are Hugo Modules themselves can import other Hugo Modules. Turn your existing site into a Hugo Module by running the following command from your site directory, replacing github.com/me/my-existing-site with your site repository:
hugo mod init github.com/me/my-existing-site
This creates two new files, go.mod for the module definitions and go.sum which holds the checksums for module verification.
Next declare the Docsy theme module as a dependency for your site.
hugo mod get github.com/google/docsy@v0.10.0
This command adds the docsy theme module to your definition file go.mod.
Update your config file
In your hugo.toml/hugo.yaml/hugo.json file, update the theme setting to use Hugo Modules. Find the following line:
theme=["docsy"]
theme:docsy
"theme":"docsy"
Change this line to:
theme=["github.com/google/docsy"]
theme:- github.com/google/docsy
"theme":["github.com/google/docsy"]
Alternatively, you can omit this line altogether and replace it with the settings given in the following snippet:
[module]proxy="direct"# uncomment line below for temporary local development of module# replacements = "github.com/google/docsy -> ../../docsy"[module.hugoVersion]extended=truemin="0.73.0"[[module.imports]]path="github.com/google/docsy"disable=false
You can find details of what these configuration settings do in the Hugo modules documentation.
Depending on your environment you may need to tweak them slightly, for example by adding a proxy to use when downloading remote modules.
Tip
In Hugo 0.110.0 the default config base filename was changed to hugo.toml.
If you are using hugo 0.110 or above, we recommend renaming your config.toml to hugo.toml!
Attention
If you have a multi language installation, please make sure that the section [languages] inside your hugo.toml is declared before the section [module] with the module imports. Otherwise you will run into trouble!
Check validity of your configuration settings
To make sure that your configuration settings are correct, run the command hugo mod graph which prints a module dependency graph:
hugo mod graph
hugo: collected modules in 1092 ms
github.com/me/my-existing-site github.com/google/docsy@v0.10.0
github.com/google/docsy@v0.10.0 github.com/twbs/bootstrap@v5.2.3+incompatible
github.com/google/docsy@v0.10.0 github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome@ v0.0.0-20230802202706-f0c25837a3fe
Make sure that three lines with dependencies docsy, bootstrap and Font-Awesome are listed. If not, please double check your config settings.
Tip
In order to clean up your module cache, issue the command hugo mod clean
hugo mod clean
hugo: collected modules in 995 ms
hugo: cleaned module cache for"github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome"hugo: cleaned module cache for"github.com/google/docsy"hugo: cleaned module cache for"github.com/twbs/bootstrap"
Clean up your repository
Since your site now uses Hugo Modules, you can remove docsy from the themes directory, as instructed below.
First, change to the root directory of your site:
cd /path/to/my-existing-site
Previous use of Docsy theme as git clone
Simply remove the subdirectory docsy inside your themes directory:
rm -rf themes/docsy
Previous use of Docsy theme as git submodule
If your Docsy theme was installed as submodule, use git’s rm subcommand to remove the subdirectory docsy inside your themes directory:
git rm -rf themes/docsy
You are now ready to commit your changes to your repository:
git commit -m "Removed docsy git submodule"
Attention
Be careful when using the rm -rf command, make sure that you don’t inadvertently delete any productive data files!