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

In the end, the Actual solution for the question to correct the problem:

It was because it needed a git push, after a merge. This just happened to me too, same error message. Andy magoon was right also, because when I did the push, I see a clean slate now, with no bytes having been pushed. However, rebasing is not usually the best course.

    $ git status ./
On branch master-blah1
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master-blah1' by 869 commits.
  (use "git push" to publish your local commits)
nothing to commit, working directory clean


    $ git push
    Counting objects: 7, done.
    Delta compression using up to 48 threads.
    Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
    Writing objects: 100% (7/7), 653 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
    Total 7 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)

$ git status ./
On branch master-blah1
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master-blah1'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean