failed: "It's conflicted to deploy on same branch master"

[infominer33]

deployment failed: "It's conflicted to deploy on same branch master"

no good reason for me to deploy to a different branch, actually makes my job a lot more complicated when the build command changes only a few files in the _site directory

Over the years, I've have websites using a variety of frameworks from Hugo to Jekyll and a variety of others, deploying to the same branch as I'm building from has been a problem only this time.

[infominer33]

it appears this is unrelated to your action, but a systemwide behavior I haven't encountered, yet.

the solution is simple enough to clone the gh-pages branch and serve from there... just confusing to get here