Fail graciously with enableGitInfo = true in a non-git project

[marcojakob]

Hugo (v0.55.6/extended windows/amd64) exits with a fatal error if enableGitInfo is set to true in a folder that does not contain git info.

Failed to read Git log: fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

I don't think it's necessary to quit and raise a fatal error in that case. I'm using the new GitHub template function and others are using my Hugo repo as a template. Then if someone just downloads the repo without using git (there are such people), they face this error. I think a warning would be more than enough.

[marcojakob]

The lastmod parameter has a nice mechanism to fall back to other dates if the git info is not available. Maybe the enableGitInfo config could be handled similarly.

Or would this create a problem with the way people are using the Git Info Variables?

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[marcojakob]

For the record: I currently use a workaround for this issue. I've removed the enableGitInfo from config.toml and instead use it as a command line argument. Since I'm using Netlify, my netlify.toml looks like this:

[build]
publish = "public"
command = "hugo --baseURL $URL --enableGitInfo"

[build.environment]
HUGO_VERSION = "0.55.6"

This way if someone downloads the repo without using git and uses Hugo to run, the fatal error does not appear.

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[Spaceface16518]

I don't think this should be closed. This issue is causing my build to fail on the Vercel platform. With hugo version

Hugo Static Site Generator v0.70.0/extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate: unknown

Setting enableGitInfo = false causes the build to succeed.

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