Why does Git sometimes show “Your branch is ahead of ‘origin/main’ by 1 commit” after pushing?

[NyxRoot7]

Hi everyone
I just created my first GitHub repo and pushed my code, everything seems to work fine.
But now I sometimes see this message in the terminal:

Your branch is ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit.
I did a bit of searching and read that it has to do with local and remote branches being out of sync, but I’m not sure what that actually means in practice.

If I already ran git push, why would my branch still be “ahead”?
Do I need to do something to fix or clear it, or can I just ignore it?
Thanks a lot for helping, im just getting started with git and would like to understand what’s really happening under the hood

[miglioDev]

Hello NyxRoot, welcome to GitHub!
That message just means your local branch has commits that the remote (on GitHub) doesn’t have yet.
It usually shows up right after you make a new commit, before you push it.
Once you run git push, the remote will catch up and the message should go away.

If you still see it after pushing, it might be that the push didn’t actually go through — maybe you’re on a different branch, or you forgot -u origin main the first time.
You can check with git status or git log --oneline --graph to see what’s different.

In short: it’s not an error don't worry, it's just Git telling you that your local work is a bit ahead of what’s on GitHub.

[NyxRoot7]

Got it, that makes total sense now, thanks a lot for the clear explanation! 💖