deploy-staging.yml

name: Deploy Staging Site  
 
# Trigger on pushes to the staging branch  
on:  
  push:  
    branches: [ "staging" ]  
 
jobs:  
  build-and-deploy:  
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest  
    steps:  
      # Step 1: Check out the code from the staging branch  
      - name: Checkout staging  
        uses: actions/checkout@v4    
 
      # Step 2: Deploy to gh-pages branch (staging subdirectory)  
      - name: Deploy to Staging  
        uses: peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v4  
        with:  
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}  
          publish_branch: gh-pages  
          publish_dir: .                            # Same as production (e.g., _site for generators)  
          destination_dir: staging                  # Deploy to /staging in gh-pages  
          force_orphan: false                       # Don’t overwrite production files in gh-pages