Can't push git commit

[Matthew_Carson]

Hi. I am able to stage and commit changes using R Studio, but the "Push Branch" menu option remains grayed out. I am able to push using the command prompt; it just won't work in R Studio for some reason. Any ideas about what's going on?

[AmeliaMN]

When things like this happen to me it's usually that something is poorly-defined in my remotes. To debug, I recommend the usethis function git_sitrep(). That function will actually give some suggestions for fixing issues if they are common, or the results of your sitrep could help us debug your setup further.

[Matthew_Carson]

Hi Amelia, thanks for the suggestion. I downloaded the package and called the git_strep() function. Nothing sticks out to me, expect the missing email scopes. Could that be it?

> git_sitrep()

── Git global (user) 
• Name: 'matthewacarson'
• Email: 'github-carsonm@snkmail.com'
• Global (user-level) gitignore file: <unset>
• Vaccinated: FALSE
ℹ See `?git_vaccinate` to learn more
ℹ Defaulting to 'https' Git protocol
• Default Git protocol: 'https'
• Default initial branch name: 'master'

── GitHub user 
• Default GitHub host: 'https://github.com'
• Personal access token for 'https://github.com': '<discovered>'
• GitHub user: 'matthewacarson'
• Token scopes: 'gist, repo, workflow'
✖ Token lacks recommended scopes:
  - 'user:email': needed to read user's email addresses
  Consider re-creating your PAT with the missing scopes.
  `create_github_token()` defaults to the recommended scopes.
✖ Can't retrieve registered email addresses from GitHub.
  Consider re-creating your PAT with the 'user' or at least 'user:email' scope.

── Active usethis project: 'C:/Users/madou/OneDrive - UCLA IT Services/2)_2023_Fall/PS-170A/Minimum-Wage-Project' ──

── Git local (project) 
• Name: 'matthewacarson'
• Email: 'github-carsonm@snkmail.com'
• Default branch: 'main'
• Current local branch -> remote tracking branch:
  'main' -> '<unset>'

── GitHub project 
• Type = 'ours'
• Host = 'https://github.com'
• Config supports a pull request = TRUE
• origin = 'matthewacarson/Minimum-Wage-Project' (can push)
• upstream = <not configured>
• Desc = 'origin' is both the source and primary repo.

[AmeliaMN]

That all looks pretty good! I don't think it's the scopes, I often get a message like that if I've created the PAT myself without using create_github_token().

It's a little strange that you don't have an upstream in the GitHub project area, so that would be my first guess. This other community post says doing a manual push with -u will help enable the buttons, probably because it adds that upstream reference. I think you could also add an upstream with the use_git_remote() function from usethis.