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What does git reset do?

From
RGRon Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date
Feb 2, 2010, 07:47 UTC
Message-ID
<ron1-A2A2DE.23475601022010@news.gmane.org>
The docs say that git-reset:
"Sets the current head to the specified commit..."
So I tried this:
[ron@mickey:~/devel/gittest]$ git branch
* br1
  master
[ron@mickey:~/devel/gittest]$ git reset --soft master
...expecting HEAD to now point to master.  But it doesn't:
[ron@mickey:~/devel/gittest]$ git branch
* br1
  master
[ron@mickey:~/devel/gittest]$ more .git/HEAD 
ref: refs/heads/br1
So... what does git reset do?

Thanks, rg

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