Hey Chris, Have a look at the actual list of commits in your gh-pages vs. main branches, I suspect you'll spot what's going on pretty quickly :)
https://github.com/cpsyctc/CECPfuns/commits/gh-pages/ vs https://github.com/cpsyctc/CECPfuns/commits/main/ Mike C On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM Chris Evans <chrish...@psyctc.org> wrote: > Sorry for a very trivial issue at one edge of R package management: use > of github. > > My package (https://github.com/cpsyctc/CECPfuns) is mostly very simple > as I am entirely self-taught as a statistics user and R programmer and > as I am ageing! (I was a fairly good psychiatrist and psychotherapist > and still am a pretty productive researcher I think!) > > The package is mostly aimed at people like me who find R amazingly > helpful but who sometimes struggle with the documentation, warnings and > error messages. Hence a lot of it is trivial but is trying to wrap > things up to give end users reasonable help, the odd vignette (not > enough currently) and good input sanity checking and non-geek worded > warnings and errors. > > OK enough of the apologies. I have always found git and github in the > "dark arts" side of things but I thought that pushing my commits (from > within a package worked on locally in Rstudio) was working for updating > the package and mostly I thought the evidence was that it was. Clearly > I wasn't checking well enough. > > At some point I clearly created a gh-pages branch and I think that was > to get github to create the user friendly html page(s) about the > package. Reading the web now and trying to separate up to date from old > advice from out of date advice I think this is no longer necessary and I > could get the html from the main branch and ditch the gh-pages branch. > > However, as the subject line says, I now see that the two branches are > badly out of synch. Github says that main is my default branch and > gh-pages an active branch and at the moment both say they were last > updated six hours ago which was when I last pushed changes up. However, > gh-pages says its behind:ahead count is 100:31 which sounds nasty and I > don't think my use of pkgdown and things in /doc and /docs are updating > correctly. > > Having scoured the web for help on this I am rattled and reaching out > for hel. As I say above, I think using gh-pages is no longer necessary > and I would like to synchronise the two branches if that is possible > then delete the gh-pages branch and then get my courage up and try to > get back to understanding how best to document things with github pages > and with pkgdown. > > I know this is very small beer against the fascinating things I read > here but I hope someone can look at my mess and point me to safe ways > forward. > > Thanks in advance and more generally, thanks for the list which is, > though often way beyond what I need, always educational for me. > > Chris > > -- > Chris Evans (he/him) > Visiting Professor, UDLA, Quito, Ecuador > CORE site: http://www.coresystemtrust.org.uk > <https://www.coresystemtrust.org.uk/> > Other work web site: https://www.psyctc.org/psyctc/ > Personal site: https://www.psyctc.org/pelerinage2016/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
