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

The ^ is an escape character in the Windows Command Line. Use ^^ instead of ^.

git reset --soft HEAD^^

See Rob Van Der Woude's Scripting Pages for details on Escape Characters.