Fix the thing GitHub keeps saying “This branch is X commits ahead, Y commits behind”

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ref stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41283955/github-keeps-saying-this-branch-is-x-commits-ahead-y-commits-behind

works by
1. git remote add upstream https://github/upstream/repo.git
2. git pull --rebase upstream master
2.1 git rebase --skip  (if the conflicts are not true, skip the patches)
3. git push --force-with-lease origin master

If there are branches to fix
4. git checkout myfeature
5. git rebase master
6. git push --force-with-lease origin myfeature

=== If the above does not seem work ===

1. in your local master branch (or other branch that went wrong)
2. git rebase -i <commit-id>  (the commit id should be the last id before the "base" id you want to rebase to)
3. squash or drop the redundant commits, leave only the first commit maybe (the first commit should be the base id you like to rebase to)
4. wq save and apply this rebase
5. git pull --rebase upstream master
6. git push --force-with-lease origin master

done !!

You saved my life, thank you!

thanks!

After editing and merging PR's from Upstream from time-to-time, my Forked repository is now XX commits ahead.
I'm wondering, is there any way to squash all the extra commits that I've done so that it would say that my repository is just 1 commit ahead?

Thank you for sharing!