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Prevent existing environment variables from being overriden?

Open evandam opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Hey @nickstenning thanks for this project!

I was wondering if there's a way to prevent a .env file from overwriting an existing env var. Consider the following example:

$ cat .env
FOO="using FOO from .env"

$ FOO="Using FOO from shell" honcho run -e .env env | grep FOO
FOO=Using .env.local

Ideally, if FOO is already set, I don't think a .env file should overwrite it, like if the environment variable gets set at runtime in a docker-compose.yml, k8s, or whatever orchestrator may be setting them.

Similarly this would be helpful when passing multiple .env files for different environments for example:

❯ honcho run -e .env.local,.env.dev,.env env | grep FOO
FOO=Using .env

It seems that right now the last file parsed will always take over an environment variable previously set, but it would be nice if it didn't override them.

evandam avatar Apr 07 '22 15:04 evandam