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Why can't I disable Github Pages? #21771
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I understand you can by deleting the gh-pages branch, but why is that needed? There is a button to disable gh-pages, but it’s greyed out. It’s confusing.
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I think it’s to account for legacy behaviour. Before this option was avialable you could just use a gh-pages branch to trigger GitHub Pages to render. Anyone who creates a branch locally with the same name and pushes it up should get a Pages site automatically. Best thing to do is to branch gh-pages to a name other than this and then turn it off and delete the old branch. |
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There is a button to disable gh-pages, but it’s greyed out. It’s confusing
I agree. |
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What if you fork a repo with GitHub Pages and you need to keep the branch to be able to create Pull Requests? Every time I push to my fork it sends me an EMail saying the custom domain is taken. I tryed changing the domain for my fork but that didn’t help. I can’t disable it as well. So basically I’m stuck. Any ideas? |
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Thanks for the explanation of how it’s related to legacy behavior. Not being able to disable GitHub Pages when we have a |
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I agree. As of 2019/06/12, exactly the same thing is happening to me. GitHubHelp didn’t help either. Because deleting the “gh-pages” branch is not an option since I’d like to contribute translate their web pages. My current workaround is to switch the GitHub Pages’ source to “master” branch, which is also grayed out but choosable. Since this branch doesn’t contain the “CNAME” file. But still, this exposes the forked master to myname.github.io and I feel uncomfortable. What I want is just to choose “None” to disable the GitHub Pages. 😭
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I think it’s to account for legacy behaviour. Before this option was avialable you could just use a gh-pages branch to trigger GitHub Pages to render. Anyone who creates a branch locally with the same name and pushes it up should get a Pages site automatically. Best thing to do is to branch gh-pages to a name other than this and then turn it off and delete the old branch.