hugo/docs/content/community/contributing.md

title	date	aliases	groups	groups_weight
Contributing to Hugo	2013-07-01	/doc/contributing/ /meta/contributing/	community	30

We welcome all contributions. If you want to contribute, all that is needed is simply fork Hugo, make changes and submit a pull request. All pull requests must include comprehensive test cases. If you prefer, pick something from the roadmap or contact spf13 about what may make sense to do next.

Overview

1. Fork Hugo from https://github.com/spf13/hugo
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Commit passing tests to validate changes.
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request

Building from source

Clone locally (for contributors):

git clone https://github.com/spf13/hugo
cd hugo
go get

Because go expects all of your libraries to be found in either $GOROOT or $GOPATH, it's helpful to symlink the project to one of the following paths:

• ln -s /path/to/your/hugo $GOPATH/src/github.com/spf13/hugo
• ln -s /path/to/your/hugo $GOROOT/src/pkg/github.com/spf13/hugo

Running Hugo

cd /path/to/hugo
go install github.com/spf13/hugo/hugolibs
go run main.go

Building Hugo

cd /path/to/hugo
go build -o hugo main.go
mv hugo /usr/local/bin/