Questions regarding checkout directory

[thorntonrose]

If I go into /var/jenkins_home/scm-sync-configuration/checkoutConfiguration and run git status, I see this:

On branch master
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 1285 commits.
(use "git push" to publish your local commits)
nothing to commit, working tree clean

Yet, all the commits are showing up in my GitHub repo. Is git push happening from a different directory? If not, why does the checkout directory look like it's ahead of the remote repo?