[PATCH 3/6] git-reset.txt: reset --soft is not a no-op

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Make it clearer that git reset --soft actually does something (changing
HEAD). While it is meantioned in the previous paragraph already it can
be easily overlooked otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/git-reset.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 8fb871c..65f5d07 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ linkgit:git-add[1]).
 --
 --soft::
 	Does not touch the index file nor the working tree at all, but
-	requires them to be in a good order. This leaves all your changed
+	requires them to be in good order (and sets the head to <commit>,
+	just like all modes do). This leaves all your changed
 	files "Changes to be committed", as 'git status' would
 	put it.
 
-- 
1.7.3.rc1.215.g6997c

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