when picking a commit to merge into my current branch, are they local or remote commits?

[Mowai Me]

I am in my working local branch

I push my changes into my remote working branch. My local and remote working branches are updated and in the graph, they are located in the same node. 

I rebase to master

I click on the merge button and when I pick a commit to merge into my local master, the commits that are merged into my local master are the ones from my remote or my local working branch?

[Karl Hansen]

From my understanding, master commits from local, and requires a push to remote.

[Mowai Me]

Thanks for your response. So, that means that I am merging my local working branch into my master branch, right? Unless in command console I explicitly chose to merge my remote working branch into my local master, I will always be merging locals?

[Karl Hansen]

I use SourceTree instead of console commands, but the effect is the same.  The merge is to a local branch -- I take a deliberate step when I push any committed changes to remote.

[Mowai Me]

Thanks for your help!!