Can I disable gh-pages hosting for my forked repo?

Question

I've forked a repo that has gh-pages set as it's default branch. They're hosting it on a custom domain, so there is a custom CNAME file.

I'm getting emails from Github with the following:

The page build completed successfully, but returned the following warning:

CNAME already taken: styleguides.io

I don't need to host the site myself, the fork is just for making contribs back. I'm just looking for a way to disable gh-pages hosting for my fork, so I don't get these errors/emails anymore.

Answer 1

I would suggest renaming the "branch" in your fork to something other than gh-pages, that should prevent it from triggering builds, but will still allow you to pull request to the gh-pages on the upstream parent.