Updated Environment Variables Before Dotenv File

[DominiqueLade]

I created the following task file:

vars:
  ENVIRONMENT: "dev"

dotenv: [".env.{{.ENVIRONMENT}}"]

tasks:
  ...

When executing any task normally, such as task mytask (without overwriting the variable ENVIRONMENT), everything works as expected, and the environment variables from the .env.dev file are loaded. However, when I overwrite the environment variable with task mytask ENVIRONMENT=prod, the variable is updated to prod within the task, but the .env.dev file is still loaded.

It appears that the variable is overwritten only after the dotenv file is loaded. I would expect the change to be applied beforehand. This would be highly useful for managing the environment on a global level.

• Task version:
  • v3.40.0
• Operating system:
  • ProductName: macOS
  • ProductVersion: 14.3
  • BuildVersion: 23D56
• Experiments enabled:
  • no

[hugo-ricateau]

Same issue with dynamic variables for task-scope dotenv::

vars:
  DOTENV:
    sh: mktemp

tasks:
  task:
    dotenv:
      - '{{.DOTENV}}'

(variables in dotenv: clause are resolved before the dynamic variables are evaluated)