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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.
+
+## Contributing
+
+We welcome contributions to Hugo of any kind including documentation, suggestions, bug reports, pull requests etc. Also check out our [contribution guide](https://gohugo.io/contribute/documentation/). We would love to hear from you. 
+
+Note that this repository contains solely the documentation for Hugo. For contributions that aren't documentation-related please refer to the [hugo](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo) repository. 
+
+*Pull requests shall **only** contain changes to the actual documentation. However, changes on the code base of Hugo **and** the documentation shall be a single, atomic pull request in the [hugo](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo) repository.*
+
+## Branches
+
+* The `master` branch is where the site is automatically built from, and is the place to put changes relevant to the current Hugo version.
+* The `next` branch is where we store changes that is related to the next Hugo release. This can be previewed here: https://next--gohugoio.netlify.com/
+
+## Build
+
+To view the documentation site locally, you need to clone this repository:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs.git
+```
+
+Also note that the documentation version for a given version of Hugo can also be found in the `/docs` sub-folder of the [Hugo source repository](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo).
+
+Then to view the docs in your browser, run Hugo and open up the link:
+
+```bash
+▶ hugo server
+
+Started building sites ...
+.
+.
+Serving pages from memory
+Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
+Press Ctrl+C to stop
+```