From fc9b28a7b63ff6773ce3ef54e2cba4a09196e767 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carlos Scheidegger <carlos.scheidegger@rstudio.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:16:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] publish - timeout after 5 minutes. Closes #12286

---
 src/publish/gh-pages/gh-pages.ts | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/publish/gh-pages/gh-pages.ts b/src/publish/gh-pages/gh-pages.ts
index 39aa0c75be7..3644aa22794 100644
--- a/src/publish/gh-pages/gh-pages.ts
+++ b/src/publish/gh-pages/gh-pages.ts
@@ -246,6 +246,8 @@ async function publish(
 
   // wait for deployment if we are opening a browser
   let verified = false;
+  const start = new Date();
+
   if (options.browser && ghContext.siteUrl && !notifyGhPagesBranch) {
     await withSpinner({
       message:
@@ -253,6 +255,14 @@ async function publish(
     }, async () => {
       const noJekyllUrl = joinUrl(ghContext.siteUrl!, ".nojekyll");
       while (true) {
+        const now = new Date();
+        const elapsed = now.getTime() - start.getTime();
+        if (elapsed > 1000 * 60 * 5) {
+          info(colors.yellow(
+            "Deployment took longer than 5 minutes, giving up waiting for deployment to complete",
+          ));
+          break;
+        }
         await sleep(2000);
         const response = await fetch(noJekyllUrl);
         if (response.status === 200) {