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 # Hugo Docs
 
 Documentation site for [Hugo](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo), the very fast and flexible static site generator built with love in GoLang.
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+## Branches
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+* The `master` branch is the **current Hugo version** and will be auto-deployed to gohugo.io/](https://gohugo.io/].
+* Anything not relevant for the current Hugo version goes into the `dev` branch.
+* Changes in [hugo/docs](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/tree/master/docs) will, in general, be merged once every release, but can be manually merged/cherry picked if needed. This goes both ways.
+* All contributions that is not tightly coupled with code changes, should be made directly to `hugoDocs`.
+* But we also merge PRs into  [hugo/docs](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/tree/master/docs), but preferably changes that is related to the code in the PR itself
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+To summarize, we have two branches in this repository: `master` (current Hugo) and `dev` (next Hugo).