Learn Git Lesson gives incorrect definition of soft and medium resets

Describe the Issue

There’s a definition in a Relational Database Learn Git lesson that is not strictly correct. This instruction is given:

I’m going to show you a few ways to remove or undo a commit. The first is to simply “travel back in time”. You can use the git reset command to travel to any point in your commit history. Your current HEAD is a reference to the last commit you just made. Use git reset HEAD~1 to go back one before HEAD .

The problem is the next instruction which says:

This is a “soft” reset and will put the changes from the commit you undid in your working tree. You can see that it says there’s unstaged changes after the reset to your file…

This was not a “soft” reset. This was a “medium” reset. --medium is the default. --soft would leave changes in the staging area.

The original author probably indended “soft” meaning “not hard” but “soft” has a very specific meaning here.

Affected Page

https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/relational-database/learn-git-by-building-an-sql-reference-object/build-an-sql-reference-object

Your code

git reset HEAD~1

Expected behavior

I expect to be taught that git reset HEAD~1 is equivalent to git reset --medium HEAD~1, NOT git reset --soft HEAD~1 as the lesson suggests

Screenshots

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System

• Device: HP laptop
• OS: 5.18.0-kali7-amd64
• Browser: Chrome
• Version: Latest

Additional context

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[Ayush-singla27]

@nayabatir1 My PR have been merged. I think this issue will soon be closed.

[stabbystabstab]

PR: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/learn-git-by-building-an-sql-reference-object/pull/15