I am getting an error whenever I try automatic deployment with GitHub

[fool]

not weird at all that manual and automatic deployments are differently behaving; they are 100% different processes:

• automatic requires that we can build your site
• manual requires that YOU can build your site and we never try to build anything

I’d take a step back and ensure that you can build locally from a CLEAN checkout of your repo, and confirm what version of hugo you are using locally and make sure ours is the same.

This article describes those and other “common” debugging processes which we’ll need you to try before our staff takes a swing at it in case they don’t help:

[Support Guide] Debugging Netlify site builds

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 Note: This article is only about builds within Netlify’s Continuous Integration (CI) environment, as triggered from git commits or from incoming build webhooks. You can learn more in depth about how Netlify builds your site in this article about how our build bots build sites. Some background There are a fair number of reasons that a build could fail in Netlify’s CI environment, even if building works locally. Testing locally is always the place …