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git-reset.txt: Small fix + clarifications.
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This basically translates the man-page from 'git-developerish' to plain
english, adding some almost-sample output from git-status so users can
recognize what will happen.

Also mention explicitly that --mixed updates the index, while --soft
doesn't. I understood the old text to mean "--mixed is exactly like
--soft, but verbose".

Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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Sets the current head to the specified commit and optionally resets the
index and working tree to match.

This command is useful if you notice some small error in a recent
commit (or set of commits) and want to redo that part without showing
the undo in the history.

If you want to undo a commit other than the latest on a branch,
gitlink:git-revert[1] is your friend.

OPTIONS
-------
--mixed::
Like --soft but reports what has not been updated. This is the
default action.
Resets the index but not the working tree (ie, the changed files
are preserved but not marked for commit) and reports what has not
been updated. This is the default action.

--soft::
Does not touch the index file nor the working tree at all, but
requires them in a good order.
requires them to be in a good order. This leaves all your changed
files "Updated but not checked in", as gitlink:git-status[1] would
put it.

--hard::
Matches the working tree and index to that of the tree being
switched to.
switched to. Any changes to tracked files in the working tree
since <commit-ish> are lost.

<commit-ish>::
Commit to make the current HEAD.
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