No index.html in public/

Hello, I’m new on hugo and just created a website based on the guide, https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/. But when I followed the instructions Deployment in this website and ran hugo, it only generated index.xml, sitemap.xml and other folders in public/, but not index.html mentioned in the forum. Also my github.io only displayed the xml file, what step did I miss? Thanks in advance.

Could you link to your repository. There’s lots of things that could be going wrong, but without some code we’re flying blind.

I can link to my repository. And the code is forked from the guide website. Sorry for my unclear description. I only follow the Deployment step https://sourcethemes.com/academic/docs/deployment/

I find the answer, after deleting content/home/demo.md, it can work well.