Tired of having to manually enter the git commands to get latest again and again, I added this script to my .zshrc file in VSCode to handle the process for me.

gitLatest()
{
    git status
    echo "This action will overwrite any uncommitted changes. Are you sure? (y/n): "
    read -e overwrite
 
    if [[ "$overwrite" == "y" ]] ; then
        git checkout main
        git fetch
        git reset --hard origin/main
    fi
}

When I run the script, the directions are displayed and I enter “y” at the prompt. The “y” is re-printed and the script terminates.

I’ve tried reformatting the if statement portion a number of ways according to blog posts and SO posts that seemed tangibly related to get the logic to trigger but no action so far gets into the if statement.