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Requested by Jeff · project thread

Before: ${VAR} in a dotenv file resolved from the process environment first. With mise activate exporting .env into the shell, .env.test containing VAR_A="test" and VAR_B="test_${VAR_A}" produced VAR_B=test_base, and the result changed after editing .env. See discussion #13941.

After: a dotenv file's own earlier assignments win, then values loaded so far (expand = true) or the process environment. The example now gives VAR_B=test_test and VAR_C=test_test_test whether or not the variables are already exported.

The cause was dotenvy checking env::var before same-file values. This vendors dotenv-ng-core 1.0.0 (MIT, a dotenvy fork) as crates/mise-dotenv, trimmed of process-environment mutation and with no clippy exemptions. A new mise_dotenv::parse never reads the process environment. dotenvy is removed. Both _.file dotenv loading and env_file setting go through it.

Notes:

• Dotenv files still always expand same-file references, as documented; docs updated to say own values take precedence.
• To match the old parser, braced text that is not a substitution (such as ${VAR:=x}) stays literal, and the env_file setting keeps the assignments read before a syntax error and warns with the file name. _.file still fails on a syntax error, as before.
• ${VAR:?message} and the other :-/:+ forms now work in dotenv files.
• Added e2e/env/test_env_file_ambient; mise-dotenv unit tests pass; clippy --workspace --all-features --all-targets -D warnings is clean.

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Changes dotenv variable expansion for all .env loads; correct for the reported bug but may differ from prior dotenvy behavior for edge cases.

Overview
Replaces the dotenvy dependency with an in-tree mise-dotenv crate (vendored from dotenv-ng-core), and routes env._.file dotenv loading and the env_file setting through mise_dotenv::parse.

The important behavior change is ${VAR} resolution: earlier assignments in the same file win first, then outer context (already-loaded env when expand = true, otherwise the process environment). That fixes cases where variables exported by mise activate from another .env caused later files to expand against the shell instead of their own values. The old dotenvy workaround (prefixing the file with escaped assignments) is removed.

Docs now describe mise-dotenv and the new precedence. An e2e test covers the ambient-env scenario; env_file parse failures warn once for the whole file instead of per line. Release tooling publishes the new subcrate.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for multiline .env values and rendering environment files.
  • Improved combining values from multiple .env files: later files can use values loaded earlier.
  • .env files now apply assignments parsed before a syntax error.

• Bug Fixes

  • Corrected variable expansion so assignments can reference earlier values in the same file, which take precedence over existing environment values.

• Documentation

  • Clarified .env variable expansion and value precedence.

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The PR adds mise-dotenv, a Rust crate for parsing and rendering dotenv data and loading environment values. Environment-file code now uses its parser. The PR also updates dotenv expansion documentation and adds end-to-end coverage.

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Dotenv parsing and environment loading

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Crate setup and parser core crates/mise-dotenv/Cargo.toml, crates/mise-dotenv/LICENSE, crates/mise-dotenv/README.md, crates/mise-dotenv/src/err.rs, crates/mise-dotenv/src/iter.rs, crates/mise-dotenv/src/parse.rs	Adds structured parse and I/O errors, buffered input iteration, and configurable parsing for dotenv syntax, multiline values, and substitutions.
Environment maps and ordered loading crates/mise-dotenv/src/key.rs, crates/mise-dotenv/src/lib.rs	Adds platform-aware environment maps and loader APIs for paths or readers. The loader processes inputs in order, applies configured precedence and substitutions, and returns path-aware errors.
Dotenv rendering crates/mise-dotenv/src/render.rs	Adds APIs to render values, assignments, and documents, with key and value validation. Unit and property tests cover rendering and round trips.
Environment-file integration Cargo.toml, src/config/env_directive/file.rs, src/config/mod.rs, docs/environments/index.md, e2e/env/test_env_file_ambient, xtasks/release-plz	Adds the crate to the workspace and release sequence. Environment-file parsing uses mise_dotenv; documentation and an end-to-end test cover expansion behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ConfigLoad as Config::load_env
  participant FileRead as Environment-file reader
  participant MiseDotenv as mise_dotenv::parse_partial
  ConfigLoad->>FileRead: Read and decode environment-file bytes
  FileRead-->>ConfigLoad: Return decoded text or decode failure
  ConfigLoad->>MiseDotenv: Parse decoded text
  MiseDotenv-->>ConfigLoad: Return parsed assignments and optional parse error
  ConfigLoad->>ConfigLoad: Apply parsed assignments and report parse error with file path

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 35009

Dotenv files with unusual keys such as a leading digit could break shell activation. The impact is limited to those keys and easy to avoid, so the change is mergeable with a small follow-up.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 35009

The reviewed paths retain explicit substitution inputs and existing configuration trust controls. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Risk remains low rather than minimal because authorization of every dotenv input and exposure through all downstream environment consumers are only partially established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated exposure is environment construction in the invoking mise context: control of a loaded dotenv file can affect resulting environment values and substitutions. No new service identity or privilege grant was established; maximum downstream command, asset, and environment exposure remains incompletely traced.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Existing configuration trust logic rejects configurations lacking an applicable trust decision, subject to its existing safe-mode and explicit trust exceptions. Tests classify env and env_file configuration as trust-requiring. The parsing integration keeps file reads and ambient substitution selection in the caller; these controls do not independently authenticate every referenced dotenv file or establish the authorization policy for every substitution value.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Recovery is not dependent solely on the cache key: Config records loaded dotenv files and their mtimes as watched inputs. Cache loading rejects changed or missing watched files and also checks version and expiry. This counters the proposed stale-prefix concern when a repair changes the recorded mtime; it does not establish content-level invalidation for edits preserving that mtime.

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[High risk] Replaces dotenv parser with custom implementation.

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What we checked:

• Required values still fail: The parser only preserves errors marked InvalidSubstitution. Missing required values return RequiredVariable, which still reaches the caller.

Summary

This PR makes earlier assignments in a dotenv file win over outside values during expansion.

• Adds the in-tree mise-dotenv parser and routes both dotenv loading paths through it.
• The latest changes keep assignments before an env_file error and preserve unsupported closed braced expressions as literal text.
• Adds tests for these behaviors.
• The previous release-script finding is fixed. No new actionable issues were found.

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🟡 Minor · Update the info box. It still says that dotenv files use dotenvy. · index.md:391-395

docs/environments/index.md:391-395
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Update the info box. It still says that dotenv files use dotenvy.

This PR replaces dotenvy with the vendored mise-dotenv parser. The info box still tells users that dotenv parsing uses dotenvy and that they should report parsing problems to that crate. That advice is now wrong. Parsing bugs belong to mise.

📝 Proposed fix

 ::: info
-Only dotenv-format files use [dotenvy](https://crates.io/crates/dotenvy) under the hood. If you have
-problems with dotenv parsing, report them there rather than to mise, since there is not much mise can
-do about how that crate works. JSON, YAML, and TOML files use separate parsers.
+Dotenv-format files are parsed by mise's own `mise-dotenv` crate (derived from `dotenv-ng-core`).
+JSON, YAML, and TOML files use separate parsers.
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Review comment at @docs/environments/index.md around lines 391 - 395:
Update the dotenv parsing info box to identify mise’s vendored mise-dotenv
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/mise-dotenv/src/parse.rs:
- Around line 274-295: Keep parse keys permissive; update the Bash and Zsh
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skip unsupported keys, and emit a warning for each skipped key. Reuse the
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Review comments at @crates/mise-dotenv/src/render.rs:
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Review comments at @docs/environments/index.md:
- Around line 391-395: Update the dotenv parsing info box to identify mise’s
vendored mise-dotenv parser and direct users to report parsing bugs to mise;
remove the outdated dotenvy reference and advice to report issues to that crate,
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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
env	▃▅▄▁▁▁▂█▄▆▄█▃▃▄▄▃▂	27,169,565 → 27,162,799	-0.02%	18.50 → 19.44ms	+5.05%
hook-env	▃▃▄▆▁▂▂▄▅▅▂▅▂▆▆█▅▃	29,111,283 → 29,092,659	-0.06%	19.03 → 19.85ms	+4.28%
ls	▆▆▅▁▄▂▄▆██▆▆▅▇▆▆▆▆	30,636,143 → 30,643,054	+0.02%	20.27 → 20.44ms	+0.81%
registry	▅▅▆▅▆▆▁▂▇▇▇▇▇██▇▇▁	40,112,643 → 39,976,969	-0.34%	17.30 → 17.98ms	+3.95%
startup	▅▆▆▆█▆▆█▁▂▁▂▂▂▇██▄	10,856,598 → 10,842,921	-0.13%	11.56 → 11.94ms	+3.28%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

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