To tell Hugo to ignore files in the content
directory, use this configuration in your hugo.yaml
file:
module:
mounts:
- source: 'content'
target: 'content'
# Exclude files from the 'content' directory
excludeFiles:
- '**/__README.md'
- '**/*.drawio'
See also: Official Documentation on this feature
Hugo also supports the ignoreFiles
directive but using the module
way seems to be preferred.