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

I had this question too. I searched a bit and found out that, we occasionally run 'git pull upstream master' to fetch the latest changes from upstream master to our local master which is a forked branch. However these updated changes are not pushed to our remote master yet. Hence the message says 'our local is x commits ahead of remote master'. Before proceeding with new code or modification in forked branch environment, it's better to run the following commands

git checkout master_branch;
git pull upstream master;
git push