GitHub pages are not refreshed after setup

[ralienpp]

Hi, I am attempting to use this template for a new draft. After following the instructions I see that the actions are executed successfully, but when attempting to view the generated data - I see an empty page.

I made sure the gh-pages branch was also copied when creating the repository from a template, and that the permissions for the Actions were set to "read and write". Given that there are no errors in the log, what else can I check to understand the root cause of the problem?

[ralienpp]

After making some trivial edits (add and remove a word) I committed an update to the markdown file, and the pages were built.

The commits were just dummy changes that I hoped would trigger the jobs again. Is that what really did the trick, or is there a natural delay and I just needed to be patient in the first place?

[martinthomson]

(Changing the title of the issue to reflect this.)

Yeah, the problem here is that while the gh-pages branch is updated by the setup action, the changes that are made do not trigger a refresh of the pages. I don't quite understand why that is the case. As you say, it's the next change that causes the pages to be published. That's mostly OK, but it is a little surprising.

It might be possible to manually publish as a last step of the setup action. I have done that on other repositories, but it's a little fiddly to arrange. If time permits, perhaps.