> `git reset` by itself doesn't split a commit AFAIK. You need to then `git add -p` and `git commit`
If you want to generate two commits with the exact same message, then do:
git checkout combined-commit
git reset --soft previous-version
git commit -C @
> And what happens if you had other changes in the working copy first?
Do something with them. Put them in a commit, put them into a commit in the global stack of todo commits or tell git to do that automatically.
> Or if you want to split a commit that's not at HEAD?
Check it out or do a rebase.