From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2016 22:20:47 GMT
Subject: Re: EXT: Re: "Your branch is ahead of 'origin' by X commits"
Message-ID: <xmqqy3zz70lc.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <D465DC74.B911%ernesto.alfonsogonzalez@ge.com>

"Alfonsogonzalez, Ernesto (GE Digital)"
<ernesto.alfonsogonzalez@ge.com> writes:

> I'm still not sure what it means for the branch upstream to be 'origin'
> only.

If only you checked who the upstream of your 'master' was before
doing the set-upstream-to, it would have been trivial to answer that
question, but that is water under the bridge now.

A wild guess is that the upstream of your 'master' was 'origin/HEAD'
(whose name, when fully spelled out, is "refs/remotes/origin/HEAD"),
which pointed to something other than "refs/remotes/origin/master"?