Diff and populate your .env
file from .env.dist
automatically.
If you have a .env.dist
file committed in GIT and after
a recent git pull
it has been changed, so now you need to
add those new env-variables to your own .env
.
This should be as easy as running envpopulate
.
Upon running it, you will be asked if you want to enter
custom values for every variable that doesn't yet exist in
.env
, if you don't want any interactivity then you need
to include --quiet
option.
This utility is written in Rust so that you could get a small binary executable that doesn't require any additional dependencies like an interpreter or a VM and it could be easily bundled in a docker container.
Here's how you can get an executable in order from simplest to hardest:
- download already-built binaries from the latest release, this includes: Linux builds for various architectures, OS X builds for x86_64 and i686, and a Windows GNU build
- using Docker run in directory containing your
.env.dist
file:docker run --rm -ti -v "$PWD":/usr/src/env -w /usr/src/env nikita2206/envpopulate:latest
- install using Cargo:
cargo install envpopulate
- checkout this repo using GIT and build with
cargo build