git - What is github 'compare & pull request'

Question

I am working on a MeteorIntegration (feature) branch that is published. I did a git push assuming the push was going to the checked-out branch MeteorIntegration:

And now I see the following on both master and MeteorIntegration branches.

I read github documentation: Closing a pull request and Tidying up Pull Requests but that didn't help, possibly because I am not dealing with a pull request here?

How do I get rid of this compare & pull request?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19649772/what-is-github-compare-pull-request

Answer 1

You don't actually have a pull request; GitHub just sees that you've pushed a branch, and is offering to create a pull request for it if you want.

If you don't care about that, just ignore it. It's completely harmless and will go away as soon as GitHub doesn't think the branch is "recent".