Sorry To Be A Royal Pain...

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 16, 2016, at 12:50 AM, David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> Thanks for the time to give me these suggestions. Unfortunately, I kept hitting snags that would not clear up, and, since my contributions are sporadic only, I simply nuked the whole environment (again!) and started over. I simply couldn’t get past the “This repository is 27 commits behind” hump. I would rather focus on the docs than the git interface.

David,

"27 commits behind" is easy to fix. Assuming you're using the branch naming scheme from the wiki Git page where your repository on Bithub is "origin" and https://github.com/gnucash/gnucash-docs is "upstream":
  git pull --rebase upstream maint
  git push --force origin maint

That synchronizes both your local and github repositories with the "canonical" repo. The --rebase option moves any local commits you've made to after those 27 commits in upstream, and --force replaces whatever is in origin with what's in the local repository.

Regards,
John Ralls