GitHub Pages: Inconsistent Accessibility of Deployed Content After Artifact Deletion

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Hi GitHub Community,

I’m deploying HTML report files to GitHub Pages using upload-pages-artifact@v3 and deploy-pages@v4, creating timestamped directories for each run (e.g., deployment/envname/{timestamp}).

Here’s what I’ve observed:

September 17: After running tests and uploading reports to GitHub Pages, the reports are accessible at their respective URLs.
September 18: After running tests again and uploading new reports, only September 18 reports are accessible at their respective URLs.
Artifact Deletion: When I delete the artifact for September 18, the reports with that timestamp remain accessible.

It seems that GitHub Pages maintains access to reports even after artifact deletion, but the reports become inaccessible after subsequent deployments.

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Artifact Deletion vs. Deployment: Is Github deleting the previous content and replacing it with the new content of the uploaded artifact?

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