How do I fix this because it is taking too much time "Deploying gh-pages branch to website (this may take a few minutes)"?

[muhaksim]

Description

I wanted to publish my site on github pages and it did publish but the command is still loading in my terminal saying:
"Deploying gh-pages branch to website (this may take a few minutes)".

Any solution for this?

[mcanouil]

Could you share a small self-contained "working" (reproducible) example to work with, i.e., a complete Quarto document or a Git repository? Thanks.

Unfortunately, without any information on your environment or document, there is absolutely nothing we can do.

You can share a Quarto document using the following syntax, i.e., using more backticks than you have in your document (usually four ````).

````qmd
---
title: "Reproducible Quarto Document"
format: html
---

This is a reproducible Quarto document using `format: html`.
It is written in Markdown and contains embedded R code.
When you run the code, it will produce a plot.

```{r}
plot(cars)
```

The end.
````

[muhaksim]

I am building a blog with Quarto. What pieces should I share or should I share the whole project?

[mcanouil]

The minimum amount for us to reproduce.

[cderv]

In case of publishing, I understand this is hard to share an exact example. This step you are blocked in is the last one waiting for the website to be available and loaded so that we can open it in the browser safely.

This means that your website should already be push into the gh-pages branch of your repo. Can you check that ?

Next step is that Github should have deployed it to its .io page. Can you check the Action page of your repo to see if there is an error ?

If it is not deployed, then one thing is to check the repo configuration to see if you correctly followed the recommandation
https://quarto.org/docs/publishing/github-pages.html#publish-command

Github pages should be deployed from Source and from the gh-pages branch.

If you can share your repo, we can try having a look and see if we see anything unusual.

Hope it helps.

[muhaksim]

I think it is pushed to gh-pages branch. My problem was it was it kept loading saying Deploying gh-pages branch to website (this may take a few minutes).

Here is the repo:
https://github.com/muhaksim/muhaksim.github.io

[JosiahParry]

I did just update quarto to 1.3.450 yesterday. I had never used this command before though. Unsure if its related.

[JosiahParry]

Note that after running it a second time it executed to completion. However, again, no _publish.yml file was generated in the original directory or the gh-pages branch it created.

[mcanouil]

@JosiahParry See (especially the ones labelled documentation Doc improvements & quarto-web ):

• https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+gh-pages+label%3Apublishing-github

[JosiahParry]

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to see 🤷🏼

[mcanouil]

TL;DR: The documentation is currently outdated.

Also, this is unrelated to the initial question.

[muhaksim]

I fixed the problem. I deleted the blog locally and the repo from GitHub as well. I re-initialized it again and used quarto publish gh-pages.

Thanks, @mcanouil, @JosiahParry and @cderv for your time. I really appreciate it.

[pstorozenko]

I experienced the same issue with quarto 1.5.57, I really didn't want to remove the repo, and I've found the solution!

In my case, I had to specify the gh-pages branch manually in the repo settings https://github.com/<org>/<repo>/settings/pages

Maybe it helps someone, cheers!

[cderv]

THanks for sharing !

For more context, we document the setup to do at: https://quarto.org/docs/publishing/github-pages.html#source-branch

This include checking this gh-pages config.

[pstorozenko]

Good point, I missed this part of docs 🤦🏻