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

I'm not exactly sure about the theory behind this. But I got this several times and able to fix this by doing the following.

git pull --rebase

This will fetch and merge the changes from your original repo master branch (If you have point to that)

Then you push your changes forcefully to your github cloned repository (target)

git push -f origin master

This will make sure your github clone and the your parent repo are at the same github commit level and you don't see any unnecessary changes across branches.