How does reset work

[jasmine-anzx]

I select a commit, press 'g', popup showed asking if I want soft, hard or mixed reset. I pressed 's' to choose soft reset. Nothing happened.

I tried again by moving cursor to select soft commit then Enter, nothing happen as well. What did I do wrong? Thank you

[mark2185]

That depends which commit did you select, but it works the same as git reset --soft, it should move the HEAD to the selected commit, and put all of the changes between the old and the new HEAD into the staging state.

Could you please give some steps to reproduce what you're experiencing? Or a recording?

[emmet-clarke]

Yes this doesn't work for me either. Let's say I accidentally commit to local master. I navigate to the commits pane, highlight the commit in question, press g and I get a window asking me if I want a mixed, soft, or hard reset. With the indicated kesy of m, s, or h. None of these keys does anything nor does highlighting one of them and pressing enter.

[mark2185]

Is this on the latest version? Are you resetting over merge commits by any chance?

[felixoakz]

Same here. Neither of the resets are working via Lazy GUI. Nothing happens when choosing r + any of the options.
But if i go to the terminal and run $git reset --mixed HEAD-1 it works normally.

[stefanhaller]

This seems to be a common misconception. When resetting, you need to select the commit that you want to reset to, not the one that you want to get rid of.

[felixoakz]

You're absolutely right — my bad, guess I wasn’t thinking straight. Thanks for the clarification!

[WinnerWind]

You need to select a commit from the commits menu before pressing g. When resetting, you need to select the commit that you want to reset TO. In short, resetting will send your working directory tree back to what it was during that commit's state.

Of course, as with all git operations, be mindful of what it is doing, and be sure to stash your changes if you're going to do a hard reset.

EDIT: Resetting from the Files menu will attempt to reset your tree to the state of the upstream. Resetting from the Branches menu will attempt to reset your tree to the state of the selected branch. Resetting from the Commits menu will attempt to reset your tree to the state of the selected commit.