Creating Pages deployment failed

HttpError: Invalid deployment branch and no branch protection rules set in the environment. Deployments are only allowed from gh-pages at D:\a\_actions\actions\deploy-pages\v4\node_modules\@octokit\request\dist-node\index.js:124:1 at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) at createPagesDeployment (D:\a\_actions\actions\deploy-pages\v4\src\internal\api-client.js:125:1) at Deployment.create (D:\a\_actions\actions\deploy-pages\v4\src\internal\deployment.js:74:1) at main (D:\a\_actions\actions\deploy-pages\v4\src\index.js:30:1)

Error: Failed to create deployment (status: 400) with build version c7798ee19651297b2c264f9d99d2afe227f936ce. Request ID BC61:14B3E5:17BA0C7C:17F033D0:667D003C Responded with: Invalid deployment branch and no branch protection rules set in the environment. Deployments are only allowed from gh-pages

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