why does it say “Your branch is ahead of origin/master by 857 commits” when I need to *pull* origin master

Question

Firstly, I\'m aware of a number of similarly worded questions, eg:

• How can I find the location of origin/master in git, and how do I change it?
• git:

Answer 1

git rebase -p

It will say First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it... and you'll be all set, because there's no work to replay.