From: Michael J Gruber Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:06:33 GMT Subject: [PATCH 3/6] git-reset.txt: reset --soft is not a no-op Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Make it clearer that git reset --soft actually does something (changing HEAD). While it is meantioned in the previous paragraph already it can be easily overlooked otherwise. Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber --- Documentation/git-reset.txt | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt index 8fb871c..65f5d07 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ linkgit:git-add[1]). -- --soft:: Does not touch the index file nor the working tree at all, but - requires them to be in a good order. This leaves all your changed + requires them to be in good order (and sets the head to , + just like all modes do). This leaves all your changed files "Changes to be committed", as 'git status' would put it. -- 1.7.3.rc1.215.g6997c