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/v2/webpack:/deploy-pages/node_modules/@octokit/request/dist-node/index.js:86:1 at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5) at createPagesDeployment (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v2/webpack:/deploy-pages/src/internal/api-client.js:126:1) at Deployment.create (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v2/webpack:/deploy-pages/src/internal/deployment.js:80:1) at main (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/deploy-pages/v2/webpack:/deploy-pages/src/index.js:30:1)

TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON --> starting at object with constructor 'TLSSocket' | property '_httpMessage' -> object with constructor 'ClientRequest' --- property 'socket' closes the circle