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From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Subject: What does git reset do?
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:47:56 -0800
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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