--soft

When you execute git reset with --soft option your Working Directory will not be affected, the only thing that will be different is that git status will show that changes that you've previously committed are now in the state Changes to be committed. Let's see an example. We will take the same approach as in Mixed section, we will create a new file, commit it and then do the --soft reset.

➜  git-basics-beginners git:(master)
 touch git-soft-example && git add git-soft-example && git commit -m "Add git-soft-example file"
[master 8426e59] Add git-soft-example file
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 git-soft-example

➜  git-basics-beginners git:(master) git --no-pager log --oneline
8426e59 (HEAD -> master) Add git-soft-example file
6953063 Add git reset --mixed explanation
7aa9dca Update index.js file

➜  git-basics-beginners git:(master) git reset --soft 6953063
➜  git-basics-beginners git:(master) ✗ git status
On branch master
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 2 commits.
  (use "git push" to publish your local commits)

Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

  new file:   git-soft-example

So after committing git-soft-example file we executed git reset with --soft option. After that is done git status showed us that git-soft-example file is now in the Staging Area and it is ready to be committed.