Recently I tried to deploy a Hugo based webpage to Github Pages. I ran into a few issues where indexing didn’t work as expected. It did turn out, that I had to include an empty .jekyll file into the static folder so I would be deployed to the root folder being deployed to Github Pages..
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Most probably you did come across automatic dependency managment already. There are several options available that do create automatic pull requests to your codebase, with updates to your declared dependencies. For example there is the nowawadays in Github integrated Dependabot or Renovate. I will focus on the latter one. You either could run renovate self-hosted in which case I would recommend you to consult their documentation or use the Github App which is available on the Github Marketplace....