why are my own commits to my own branch creating diffs in eGit (using eclipse with eGit to bitbucket)

Question

Im going to post this question in a "for dummies" format as I am, in fact, a dummy.

Here is the process Ive been following and its killing me

I AM THE ONLY ONE WORKING ON THIS BRANCH

1. Pull Master
2. Create branch A
3. Make changes to Branch A
4. Commit and Push Branch A
5. Hold code review...changes are required from code review
6. Pull Branch A (eGit reports no changes)
7. update Branch A with required changes
8. Commit and Push Branch A **** egit rejects and reports non-fast forward. eGit shows the same number of changes in orgin/Branch A now as i made in remote/Branch A
9. Branch A pull - eGit now pulls a change and creates a merge commit
10. i can now successfully push my change (although I have to amend the merge commit message due to formatting requirement)

Answer 1

figued out that in eGit i was accidentally creating a merge commit using the ammed button. I thought the ammed button was just allowing me to edit the message, not create a new commit