Panic with hugo new if target folder is a symbolic link

[thomasjsn]

What version of Hugo are you using (hugo version)?

$ hugo version
hugo v0.92.2-CDF6A0D6+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2022-02-11T14:17:39Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

The problem

hugo new fails if target folder is a symbolic link:

$ hugo new posts/drafts/test/index.md 
panic: [BUG] no Page found for "/home/hebron/dev/cavelab-blog/content/posts/drafts/test/index.md"

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/create.(*contentBuilder).applyArcheType(0xc000b76000, {0xc000b60a40, 0x40}, {0xc0005abc58, 0x8})
	/root/project/hugo/create/content.go:276 +0x354
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/create.(*contentBuilder).buildFile(0xc000b76000)
	/root/project/hugo/create/content.go:244 +0x1ad
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/create.NewContent.func1()
	/root/project/hugo/create/content.go:104 +0x297
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/create.NewContent(0xc000115550, {0x0, 0x0}, {0x7ffc6376e528, 0x9702e5})
	/root/project/hugo/create/content.go:108 +0x5fe
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commands.(*newCmd).newContent(0xc0004fac90, 0xc00098ea00, {0xc00081eec0, 0x1, 0x0})
	/root/project/hugo/commands/new.go:83 +0x150
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute(0xc00098ea00, {0xc00081ee90, 0x1, 0x1})
	/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.2.1/command.go:856 +0x60e
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC(0xc000996c80)
	/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.2.1/command.go:974 +0x3bc
github.com/gohugoio/hugo/commands.Execute({0xc00003c0a0, 0x2, 0x2})
	/root/project/hugo/commands/hugo.go:92 +0xb4
main.main()
	/root/project/hugo/main.go:23 +0x58

Target folder drafts is a symbolic link.

$ ls content/posts -l
...
lrwxrwxrwx  1 hebron hebron   43 Aug  3  2021 drafts -> '/home/hebron/notes/Second brain/blog/drafts'

The file content/posts/drafts/test/index.md does get created, but with the following content:

---
title: "Content Placeholder"
_build:
  render: never
  list: never
  publishResources: false
---

This used to work, but has been broken. Not entirely sure in what version it stopped working, but it may have been related to the following change:

Fix path resolution in hugo new 2b01c85 @bep #9129

[jmooring]

Confirmed. Panic introduced with 9185e11.

[pandorasNox]

Run into the same issue, needed to write a workaround bash script facilitating mv.

[jmooring]

Won't fix. See #11556.

[thomasjsn]

Won't fix. See #11556.

@jmooring Just to clarify, is this the correct way to achieve the same result as my symbolic link — using module mount instead?

[module]
[[module.mounts]]
  source = '../../notes/Second brain/blog/drafts'
  target = 'content/posts/drafts'
[[module.mounts]]
  source = 'content'
  target = 'content'

It seems to work :)

[jmooring]

is this the correct way

Yes. See https://gohugo.io/getting-started/directory-structure/#union-file-system.

[thomasjsn]

is this the correct way

Yes. See https://gohugo.io/getting-started/directory-structure/#union-file-system.

Perfect, thank you. This is indeed a much better solution than the symbolic link.

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