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Mike <xandrani@gmail.com> writes:

> "git reset --soft HEAD^" can't be picked up that quickly by a
> beginner, but git uncommit would be obvious!

So would "git commit --amend", before which "reset --soft HEAD^" was the
only way to prepare doing it, but after which "reset --soft HEAD^" more or
less outlived its usefulness for that particular use case.