Links to items in docs folder change on navigation

[Vaene]

I have jekyl setup on a gh repo, using /(root) for my doc root in Pages. I am using the https://github.com/pages-themes/minimal theme so my _layout/default.html, index.md and config.yaml are copied over from the minimal repo
I have a docs directory with page1.md page2.md and page3.md

When I open the site in pages I see the index page with the side bar and the links to the files in the docs directory, in this case its
https://redesigned-doodle-g315lzm.pages.github.io/docs/page1.html
https://redesigned-doodle-g315lzm.pages.github.io/docs/page2.html
https://redesigned-doodle-g315lzm.pages.github.io/docs/page3.html
which is great and those links work

The problem is when I click on any of those links and go to those pages their urls change to:

https://redesigned-doodle-g315lzm.pages.github.io/docs/docs/page1.html
https://redesigned-doodle-g315lzm.pages.github.io/docs/docs/page2.html
https://redesigned-doodle-g315lzm.pages.github.io/docs/docs/page3.html

which of course are broken because they are not correct. how do I get rid of the extra docs/ in the path?