About publishing sources
Your GitHub Pages site will publish whenever changes are pushed to a specific branch. You can specify which branch and folder to use as your publishing source. The source branch can be any branch in your repository, and the source folder can either be the root of the repository (/) on the source branch or a /docs folder on the source branch. Whenever changes are pushed to the source branch, the changes in the source folder will be published to your GitHub Pages site.
Warning: GitHub Pages sites are visible to all enterprise members, even if the repository for the site is private. If you have sensitive data in your site's repository, you may want to remove the data before publishing. For more information, see "About repositories."
Publishing from a branch
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Make sure the branch you want to use as your publishing source already exists in your repository.
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On GitHub AE, navigate to your site's repository.
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Under your repository name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings.
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In the "Code and automation" section of the sidebar, click Pages.
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Under "GitHub Pages", use the branch dropdown menu and select a publishing source.
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Optionally, use the folder dropdown menu to select a folder for your publishing source.
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Click Save.
Troubleshooting publishing from a branch
Notes:
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If your site has not published automatically, make sure someone with admin permissions and a verified email address has pushed to the publishing source.
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Commits pushed by a GitHub Actions workflow that uses the
GITHUB_TOKENdo not trigger a GitHub Pages build.
If you choose the docs folder on any branch as your publishing source, then later remove the /docs folder from that branch in your repository, your site won't build and you'll get a page build error message for a missing /docs folder. For more information, see "Troubleshooting Jekyll build errors for GitHub Pages sites."