From: Joe Mooring <joe.mooring@veriphor.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:31:12 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: hugolib: Fix server no watch
X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=59e0446fe5c7cb8080a3f0736c4453110b89f732;p=brevno-suite%2Fhugo

hugolib: Fix server no watch

Closes #14615

Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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diff --git a/hugolib/hugo_sites_build.go b/hugolib/hugo_sites_build.go
index 17f7c492e..84b070d13 100644
--- a/hugolib/hugo_sites_build.go
+++ b/hugolib/hugo_sites_build.go
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ import (
 // Build builds all sites. If filesystem events are provided,
 // this is considered to be a potential partial rebuild.
 func (h *HugoSites) Build(config BuildCfg, events ...fsnotify.Event) error {
-	if h.isRebuild() && !h.Conf.Watching() {
+	if h.isRebuild() && !h.Conf.Watching() && !h.Conf.Running() {
 		return errors.New("Build called multiple times when not in watch or server mode (typically with hugolib.Test(t, files).Build(); Build() is already called once by Test)")
 	}
 	if !h.isRebuild() && terminal.PrintANSIColors(os.Stdout) {
diff --git a/testscripts/server/server__watch_false.txt b/testscripts/server/server__watch_false.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2c6fe0b71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testscripts/server/server__watch_false.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# Test the hugo server command with watch disabled.
+
+hugo server --watch=false &
+
+waitServer
+
+httpget $HUGOTEST_BASEURL_0 'HOME'
+httpget $HUGOTEST_BASEURL_0 'HOME'
+
+stopServer
+! stderr .
+
+-- hugo.toml --
+baseURL = 'https://example.org/'
+disableKinds = ['page','rss','section','sitemap','taxonomy','term']
+-- layouts/home.html --
+HOME