OK. that all makes sense. I will probably just back up my code in another folder on cloud then do the merge. Thanks!
Side bar: I started digging around a little more in Github Desktop and one of the things I tried was to compare branch versions (both to understand the tool a little better but also just to make sure everything was lining up as expected).
To my surprise, it showed no differences…?? (It doesn’t really matter b/c I don’t need the old version anymore but what the what.)
I went to cmd line and ran the same compare command there:
It looks like there are NO changes between the 2 branches. But that’s impossible. I’ve been working from gh-pages1 branch for the past 2 weeks at least. I even checked to make sure by running the git branch -a cmd every once in a while.
While it is completely possible that I messed up something in Git/version control, is there another explanation for this…? I’m clearly even now still on the gh-pages1 branch. How are there no differences?