Dear Bioconductor Maintainers:

I encountered a version conflict when trying to push updates to scQTLtools: Push modifications today but was rejected, so I used "--force" and received error:

"Error: Illegal version bump from '1.1.0' to '0.99.14'."

but Bioconductor website shows version 0.99.12 (matches my local version before modification).

Question: Why does the remote devel branch have a higher version (1.1.0) than my local (0.99.12)? Should I increment the local version to 1.1.1 when pushing changes to Bioconductor's devel branch? Thank you for your answer.

Additional details:

1. Command used to push changes to Bioc:

   git push upstream main:devel
   

   To git.bioconductor.org:packages/scQTLtools.git
   ! [rejected]        main -> devel (fetch first)
   error: failed to push some refs to 'git.bioconductor.org:packages/scQTLtools.git'
   hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not
   hint: have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing to
   hint: the same ref. If you want to integrate the remote changes, use
   hint: 'git pull' before pushing again.
   hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.
   

2. Command used to push changes to Bioc in force:

   git push upstream main:devel --force
   

   Enumerating objects: 319, done.
   Counting objects: 100% (319/319), done.
   Delta compression using up to 12 threads
   Compressing objects: 100% (312/312), done.
   Writing objects: 100% (319/319), 2.42 MiB | 1.17 MiB/s, done.
   Total 319 (delta 171), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
   remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (171/171), done.
   remote: Error: Illegal version bump from '1.1.0' to '0.99.14'.
   remote:
   remote: Check http://contributions.bioconductor.org/versionnum.html
   remote: for details.
   remote:
   To git.bioconductor.org:packages/scQTLtools.git
   ! [remote rejected] main -> devel (pre-receive hook declined)
   error: failed to push some refs to 'git.bioconductor.org:packages/scQTLtools.git'
   

3. Command used to verify remote version:

   git show upstream/devel:DESCRIPTION | grep -i "^Version"
   

   Version: 1.1.0
   

   Current status:

4. Local version (main branch): 0.99.14
5. Remote devel branch (upstream/devel): 1.1.0
6. Bioconductor website displays: 0.99.12

There is a Bioconductor release today. There were notifications on the bioc-devel mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2025-April/020980.html

The versions were bumped yesterday.

They built over night.

The website is updating now as the builds have finished and are now propagating

Yes you should sync your local versions with the versions at git.bioconductor.org and then push changes. Bioconductor does not allow force pushes