Practical uses of git reset --soft?

Question

I have been working with git for just over a month. Indeed I have used reset for the first time only yesterday, but the soft reset still doesn\'t make much sense to me.

Answer 1

I use it to amend more than just the last commit.

Let's say I made a mistake in commit A and then made commit B. Now I can only amend B. So I do git reset --soft HEAD^^, I correct and re-commit A and then re-commit B.

Of course, it's not very convenient for large commits… but you shouldn't do large commits anyway ;-)