This is my go to page for untangling the behaviour of git reset and checkout: https://git-scm.com/blog/2011/07/11/reset.html https://git-scm.com/blog/2011/07/11

This is my go to page for untangling the behaviour of git reset and checkout: https://git-scm.com/blog/2011/07/11/reset.html https://git-scm.com/blog/2011/07/11/reset.html . And I find myself going to it quite often because another problem with this kind of slippery design is it just doesn't stick, in your head. (Amusingly, the author begins by admitting he wrote a whole book on Git - and perhaps the most popular one - before strongly understanding this himself.)