git reset asks 'more?'

Question

Git windows command line, version 1.8.0

I have 3 commits so far and when I type

git reset --soft HEAD^

new line comes up with

Answer 1

Your shell is interpreting the ^ symbol as a line continuation symbol. Either just avoid using ^ as Adam suggests:

git reset --soft HEAD~1

or quote the argument so the shell doesn't attempt to interpret it (I'm not sure exactly which shell you're using, but I'd be surprised if this doesn't work):

git reset --soft "HEAD^"