GitHub Pages Deployments Canceling Each Other Due to Priority Queue Logic
Developers using the default GitHub Pages build-and-deploy workflow encounter an automatic cancellation loop where each new run is treated as higher priority than the last, causing all runs to cancel without any deployment ever completing. This occurs even with single commits, not just rapid successive pushes. The problem stems from GitHub's internal concurrency handling for Pages deployments, which users cannot configure without explicitly adding concurrency group settings to their workflow YAML.
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