GitHub pull request showing commits that are already in target branch

Question

I\'m trying to review a pull request on GitHub to a branch that isn\'t master. The target branch was behind master and the pull request showed commits from master, so I merg

Answer 1

One way to fix this is to git rebase targetbranch in that PR. Then git push --force targetbranch, then Github will show the right commits and diff. Be careful with this if you don't know what you are doing. Maybe checkout a test branch first to do the rebase then git diff targetbranch to make sure it is still what you want.