commands: Move time notification to after any build errors

This allows error parsers (VSCode problemMatchers) to use the time notification as bounds for detecting errors.

Closes #8403

3 files changed, 29 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/commands/commands.go b/commands/commands.go
index 235f35917..c4d37ab3e 100644
--- a/commands/commands.go
+++ b/commands/commands.go
@@ -162,13 +162,21 @@ Complete documentation is available at http://gohugo.io/.`,
 				return nil
 			}
 
+			// prevent cobra printing error so it can be handled here (before the timeTrack prints)
+			cmd.SilenceErrors = true
+
 			c, err := initializeConfig(true, cc.buildWatch, &cc.hugoBuilderCommon, cc, cfgInit)
 			if err != nil {
+				cmd.PrintErrln("Error:", err.Error())
 				return err
 			}
 			cc.c = c
 
-			return c.build()
+			err = c.build()
+			if err != nil {
+				cmd.PrintErrln("Error:", err.Error())
+			}
+			return err
 		},
 	})
 
diff --git a/commands/hugo.go b/commands/hugo.go
index 86aa8d573..0f6e4274a 100644
--- a/commands/hugo.go
+++ b/commands/hugo.go
@@ -539,7 +539,6 @@ func (c *commandeer) build() error {
 }
 
 func (c *commandeer) serverBuild() error {
-	defer c.timeTrack(time.Now(), "Built")
 
 	stopProfiling, err := c.initProfiling()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -737,7 +736,6 @@ func (c *commandeer) handleBuildErr(err error, msg string) {
 }
 
 func (c *commandeer) rebuildSites(events []fsnotify.Event) error {
-	defer c.timeTrack(time.Now(), "Total")
 
 	c.buildErr = nil
 	visited := c.visitedURLs.PeekAllSet()
@@ -1124,9 +1122,13 @@ func (c *commandeer) handleEvents(watcher *watcher.Batcher,
 
 		c.printChangeDetected("")
 		c.changeDetector.PrepareNew()
-		if err := c.rebuildSites(dynamicEvents); err != nil {
-			c.handleBuildErr(err, "Rebuild failed")
-		}
+
+		func() {
+			defer c.timeTrack(time.Now(), "Total")
+			if err := c.rebuildSites(dynamicEvents); err != nil {
+				c.handleBuildErr(err, "Rebuild failed")
+			}
+		}()
 
 		if doLiveReload {
 			if len(partitionedEvents.ContentEvents) == 0 && len(partitionedEvents.AssetEvents) > 0 {
diff --git a/commands/server.go b/commands/server.go
index 5c8c778d4..09cf43b24 100644
--- a/commands/server.go
+++ b/commands/server.go
@@ -236,12 +236,24 @@ func (sc *serverCmd) server(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 		jww.WARN.Println("memstats error:", err)
 	}
 
+	// silence errors in cobra so we can handle them here
+	cmd.SilenceErrors = true
+
 	c, err := initializeConfig(true, true, &sc.hugoBuilderCommon, sc, cfgInit)
 	if err != nil {
+		cmd.PrintErrln("Error:", err.Error())
 		return err
 	}
 
-	if err := c.serverBuild(); err != nil {
+	err = func() error {
+		defer c.timeTrack(time.Now(), "Built")
+		err := c.serverBuild()
+		if err != nil {
+			cmd.PrintErrln("Error:", err.Error())
+		}
+		return err
+	}()
+	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}