Github Personal pages - Skipping a deployment with the pages provider because this branch is not permitted

Deployment
1

Hi,

I recently found out travis ci, but I’m having some problems as a newbie.

I have a personal github page (username.github.io), which is a public repo. Github requires personal pages to be published from the master branch.
Since I’m using Angular, I’d like to have a source code available, so I have made a new default branch called angular-src.

My idea was; travis grabs src from angular-src branch, builds it and then deploys it to master branch, so as to allow it to be published.

The github_token value is indeed allowed for angular-src.
Build works just fine, but when deploying, I get the error
Skipping a deployment with the pages provider because this branch is not permitted: angular-src
I’ve also added branch-protection-rule with flag Allow force pushes: true for master.

This is the build URL: https://travis-ci.org/github/samolego/samolego.github.io/jobs/676120027
My travis.yml can be seen at https://github.com/samolego/samolego.github.io/blob/angular-src/.travis.yml

What can I do to grant the permission?
Thanks in advance.

2


You need to specify the branch(es) that can trigger deployments in

without on.branch, only the master branch is allow to fire deployments.

3

Hi. First I’d like to thank you for the answer, but I still can’t get it to work. I have set the custom config to deploy.on.branch to master, but it still fails, this time with empty log. I have restarted the build twice, but log is again empty … Do you know what I’m doing wrong besides the previous issue? Thank you so much.

Build URL(check the config used there, not on github): https://travis-ci.org/github/samolego/samolego.github.io/jobs/676968007

4

Did you read the document?

It should explain that what you need is something like:

deploy:
  provider: pages
  strategy: git
  cleanup: false
  token: $github_token
  local_dir: docs/
  on:
    branch: angular-src
5

Hi, sorry to bother you again. I misunderstood the docs and thought you can do “cross-branch-deployment” with that option. Now the deployment is working, however, it’s deploying the build to gh-pages. Is it possible to change that or not? (Like, instead of deploying to gh-pages branch, to deploy on master branch).

Thank you for your time & answers you’ve provided.

6

The option you’re looking for is target_branch.

7

Thank you!