Aside: with Gitlab.com Pages, and Gitlab in general, you can specify your
own build process and you would thus not need to wait for Github to add
this particular feature.
+1 for Gitlab Pages.
I have started using Hugo few days back. All I do in commit the layout and content files (markdown). And the Gitlab CI will take care of the HTML generation using Hugo.
Here's an obligatory blog post on how that blog post got created :P
I plan to now work on an ox-hugo package that will deal with org to md conversion and management of Hugo layouts and front matter.
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