docfx: sync from repo-template (gh-pages bootstrap fix)

[Chris-Wolfgang]

Summary

Sync .github/workflows/docfx.yaml from repo-template to pick up the gh-pages bootstrap fix from Chris-Wolfgang/repo-template#337.

What changed

The "Deploy docs to GitHub Pages" step had a latent bug: when the gh-pages branch did not yet exist on the remote, $WORK_DIR was created as a plain directory and the subsequent git add / diff --cached / commit / push failed with fatal: not a git repository. The fix initializes the directory as a git repo on gh-pages and adds the authenticated origin remote, so the existing add/commit/push works on a first-ever deploy. Cleanup also branches between git worktree remove (worktree path) and Remove-Item (fresh-repo path).

If gh-pages already exists in this repo (the common case), this change is a no-op at runtime — the bootstrap branch is only taken on a fresh repo.

Test plan

• Workflow YAML lints / next docs deploy succeeds
• (Optional) verify gh-pages is unaffected

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Note

Copilot was unable to run its full agentic suite in this review.

Syncs the DocFX GitHub Actions workflow with the upstream repo-template to fix first-time gh-pages deployments when the branch does not yet exist.

Changes:

• Add a bootstrap path that initializes a gh-pages git repo in $WORK_DIR when the remote branch doesn’t exist.
• Track whether a worktree was used and branch cleanup accordingly (git worktree remove vs Remove-Item).
• Reset $LASTEXITCODE after cleanup to avoid cleanup-related failures.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

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[Chris-Wolfgang]

Superseded by PR #217 (D8 canonical refresh). The gh-pages bootstrap fix is included in the canonical docfx.yaml that #217 syncs from repo-template/main. Closing as no-longer-needed.