Why does git say I am 40 commits ahead when I seem up to date and a push-pull (no files) fixes it?
I switch to master and it says I am ahead by 40 commits: $ git checkout master Switched to branch 'master' Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 40 commits. But when I then do a pull it says I am up-to-date: $ git pull origin master From https://github.com/dmcouncil/dmWorkflow * branch master -> FETCH_HEAD Already up-to-date. However I can resolve this (remove the 40 commits msg) with: Michaels-MacBook-Pro-2:dmWorkflow durrantm$ git push origin master Everything up-to-date and now the ' 40 commits ' message is gone: $ git status # On branch mdd_play_settings_and_topics_reports nothing to