Interesting to hear your experiences. I'm doing something similar, with a large number of files in the static directory which never change. Hugo seems to lack a

Interesting to hear your experiences. I'm doing something similar, with a large number of files in the static directory which never change. Hugo seems to lack any knowledge about which files it changed, so it's a huge re-upload every time (I'm using AWS S3 sync). It would be nice if Hugo could remember if it touched a file or not. AFAICT it just copies everything over each time and changes the datestamp. Even with rsync this is a lot of useless work. I've got a script which does a git pull every 5 minutes, with automatic hugo build. It works (Hugo doesn't crash that often) and is simple enough for me.