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

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 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
 		},
 	})