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 /home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v1/webpack:/deploy-pages/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:86:1 at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) at createPagesDeployment (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v1/webpack:/deploy-pages/src/api-client.js:116:1) at Deployment.create (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v1/webpack:/deploy-pages/src/deployment.js:59:1) at main (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v1/webpack:/deploy-pages/src/index.js:30:1)

Error: Failed to create deployment (status: 400) with build version a263c9cc9a741efddfbc1feb789d710ff5342b07. Responded with: Invalid deployment branch and no branch protection rules set in the environment. Deployments are only allowed from gh-pages

The following actions uses Node.js version which is deprecated and will be forced to run on node20: actions/deploy-pages@v1. For more info: https://github.blog/changelog/2024-03-07-github-actions-all-actions-will-run-on-node20-instead-of-node16-by-default/