Command 'git reset' with options 'hard' and 'soft'

First, we will show the 'git reset --hard' that deletes the newly added files as well. Later we will show 'soft reset'.
    
~/Desktop/git_testing$ ls

~/Desktop/git_testing$ git clone https://github.com/${userName}/repo_for_testing.git

Cloning into 'repo_for_testing'...
Username for 'https://github.com': abc@xyz.com
Password for 'https://abc@xyz.com@github.com': 
remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (5/5), 4.75 KiB | 1.58 MiB/s, done.

~/Desktop/git_testing$ cd repo_for_testing/

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ ls
LICENSE  README.md

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ echo " WE WILL NOT PUSH IT " > newFile.txt 

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ ls

LICENSE  newFile.txt  README.md

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ git add -A
~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ git commit -m "a test"

[main d2c5280] a test
    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
    create mode 100644 newFile.txt

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ git status

On branch main
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit.
    (use "git push" to publish your local commits)

nothing to commit, working tree clean

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ git log

commit d2c5280b33961d30f9e945594ea54c134ef3c08e (HEAD -> main)
Author: ashish <abc@xyz.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 17 01:35:01 2021 +0530

    a test

commit 974a71b3df68140ebbc3b4775201b39c500aa589 (origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: ${userName} <abc@xyz.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 17 01:32:16 2021 +0530

    Initial commit 

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ git reset --hard 974a71b
HEAD is now at 974a71b Initial commit

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ ls
LICENSE  README.md

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ 

See in the last "ls" output that our new text file is not there.

Now, we would do a 'soft reset' and files will not be deleted this time.

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ echo " NEW FILE " > newFile.txt
~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ ls
LICENSE  newFile.txt  README.md
~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

Untracked files:
  (use "git add [file]..." to include in what will be committed)
	newFile.txt

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ git add -A
~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ git commit -m "cmt"
[main e054f92] cmt
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 newFile.txt
~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ git log
commit e054f92f804c93b82d89bffd109d06a292986963 (HEAD -> main)
Author: ashish <abc@xyz.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 17 01:51:16 2021 +0530

    cmt

commit 974a71b3df68140ebbc3b4775201b39c500aa589 (origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: ashish <abc@xyz.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 17 01:32:16 2021 +0530

    Initial commit
~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ git reset 974a71b
~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ ls
LICENSE  newFile.txt  README.md
~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ git log
commit 974a71b3df68140ebbc3b4775201b39c500aa589 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD)
Author: ashish <abc@xyz.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 17 01:32:16 2021 +0530

    Initial commit

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ ls

LICENSE  newFile.txt  README.md

~/Desktop/git_testing/repo_for_testing$ 

Title: Command 'git reset hard' Deletes Your Files
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