How to disable pages-build-deployment workflow?

[aadimator]

Description

I want to disable/delete the GitHub Action workflow that gets generated after running the quarto publish gh-pages command. I have a separate GitHub Action workflow that I want to use, and I don't use GitHub Pages for publishing, but Cloudflare's CDN. So I have setup the logic there.

The problem is that whenever I push updates to the GH repo, it automatically triggers 2 GH Actions, one that I want to execute and the other pages-build-deployment that I want to disable.

I've tried deleting or disabling the workflow, but there's no option to do that there, unlike normal GH Actions, where I can disable or remove a workflow.

I've tried using the Delete workflow run option as well. Once all the runs are deleted, the pages-build-deployment workflow vanishes from the sidebar, but upon new code push, it gets generated again.

Is there anyway to permanently disable/delete this workflow? I'd really appreciate your help. Thanks

[mcanouil]

Why are you running quarto publish in the first place here?
Simply commit your changes and push.

Note that this workflow is GitHub and has nothing to do with Quarto.
Remove the GitHub Pages directory/branch to avoid the GitHub Pages being deployed.
Or disable GitHub Pagesw

[aadimator]

I ran that command only once, because it was said so in the official doc:

Didn't run that command since then.

I had manually disabled GitHub pages and removed the GH Pages environment as well, but they both get created automatically once the workflow runs. I haven't been able to find any way yet to disable the workflow. Thought that you guys might have some clue.

[aadimator]

Oh, I think I know what's the problem here. This might be getting published because of this section in my GH Action yaml file.

      - name: Render and Publish
        uses: quarto-dev/quarto-actions/publish@v2
        with:
          target: gh-pages
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

I think I need to use the following script instead:

- name: Render Quarto Project
  uses: quarto-dev/quarto-actions/render@v2

Can I publish the result of this render action to some other branch, like gh-pages or public etc? Is it possible with the provided render action or do I have to do that using some other way?

[mcanouil]

gh-pages is a special branch for GitHub Pages.
If you don't want GitHub Pages, don't use that branch.

Add whatever steps you want after the Quarto render step.

quarto publish is a simple wrapper of quarto render and common tasks.

See https://docs.github.com/en/actions.

[aadimator]

Thanks a bunch for all the help. Much appreciated.

[burgerga]

A little late, but If you want a convenient way to use a different branch (e.g. cf-pages for Cloudflare Pages) have a look at #1776 (comment).

[fullstackzach]

Landed here via Google. I wanted to disable github pages completely.

For those who are looking to do the same, you can choose "None" at the bottom of the branch dropdown to disable it. This is under repo settings General -> Pages

[jouellnyc]

Thank you @fullstackzach - this was non obvious to me.