minify strips PHP tags

[ghost]

Steps to Reproduce

Add following line to a template:
{{ readFile "path/file" | safeHTML }}

run hugo --minify
--> This part gets ommited, when using the --minify flag on hugo.

when you run just hugo everything is fine.

How I came up with that:

I am including a php snippet for a contact form into a hugo template. Without the use of safeHTML <?php gets translated to <?php.

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[moorereason]

The upstream minifier Hugo uses doesn't handle PHP tags. See tdewolff/minify#35 (comment)

[raspopov]

Are there any workaround for such problem? Looks like a blocking error for using PHP inside HUGO templates with --minify.

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