diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yml b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
index 345c278512f5..4cfc089a3c1e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
@@ -79,3 +79,5 @@ jobs:
           enable_jekyll: false
           # Only deploy if there were changes
           allow_empty_commit: false
+          # GH pages branch is getting super big, so we want to reduce it by creating an orphan branch
+          force_orphan: true