title: Still X commits ahead of upstream after pull request merge
body: <p>I've viewed numerous answers to questions very similar on stackoverflow, but nothing seems to resolve the problem. I made a bunch of changes and have a humongous commit history, which i'm ok with for now. I did a pull request once everything was working and the pull request was merged with the repo I forked from. But my fork is still X number of commits ahead of the original repo, and I can't seem to reset this commit counter. I've tried rebasing, resetting, and seemingly everything else I can find. But I still see this:</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/UxYIPD5.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a></p>
  <p>How do I get everything back into alignment? I've only used git for my own projects up to this point, and some of git's design is confusing me.</p>