````
dkane@macbook project-1 % quarto publish gh-pages quarto-1.qmd
? Publish site to https://davidkane9.github.io/project-1/ using gh-pages? (Y/n) › Yes
````

The first time you publish, Quarto will confirm the location, which is just the standard GitHub Pages address, using your user name and the repo name.

````
Saved working directory and index state WIP on main: 71e6d06 initial version
Switched to a new branch 'gh-pages'
[gh-pages (root-commit) b8263f3] Initializing gh-pages branch
remote: 
remote: Create a pull request for 'gh-pages' on GitHub by visiting:        
remote:      https://github.com/davidkane9/project-1/pull/new/gh-pages        
remote: 
To https://github.com/davidkane9/project-1.git
 * [new branch]      HEAD -> gh-pages
 ````

 Quarto interacts with your GitHub repo directly, creating a new branch, `gh-pages`, which will be used to construct the website. 

````
[✓] Deploying gh-pages branch to website (this may take a few minutes)
[✓] Published to https://davidkane9.github.io/project-1/

dkane@macbook project-1 % 
```` 