Loading env files no longer clobbers the loaded environment #3888
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If the user has an env variable loaded, that variable is no longer clobbered by a .env file referencing the same variable.
So if your env has "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY", and you have an env file with "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY", you will use the value from your environment, rather than your env file. This sets up the priority:
$HOME/.env
$GIT_ROOT/.env
$PWD/.env
${--env-file}
Part of the reason I think this is the correct way to do this is that there are a couple of secret management tools that will parse an env file with secret references into the environment with secrets (so an env file with
USERNAME="op://vault/secret name/username"
gets instantiated in the environment asUSERNAME=<my secret username>
). This is how I discovered this behavior.