From 1ec95f469c42cf77f3fe9c8a210e3b94d07d3722 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: QuantumNeuralCoder
 <163458725+QuantumNeuralCoder@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 12:45:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] version-path-from-env

---
 config/config.go | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config/config.go b/config/config.go
index ea9d51f57..12c2e21e4 100644
--- a/config/config.go
+++ b/config/config.go
@@ -34,10 +34,15 @@ func init() {
 
 	// Read the VERSION file from the project root
 	// This approach works regardless of where the program is executed from
-	version, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(projectRoot, "VERSION"))
+	path := filepath.Join(projectRoot, "VERSION")
+	if alt := os.Getenv("DICEDB_VERSION_PATH"); alt != "" {
+			path = alt
+	}
+
+	version, err := os.ReadFile(path)
 	if err != nil {
-		slog.Error("could not read the version file", slog.String("error", err.Error()))
-		os.Exit(1)
+			slog.Error("could not read the version file", slog.String("error", err.Error()))
+			os.Exit(1)
 	}
 
 	// Store the version string in the package-level DiceDBVersion variable