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You can't source an .env file without some munging. All the keys would need `export` in front of them I believe.

That doesn't seem like a huge barrier compared to shipping a dotenv binary compiled specifically to all deployment arch.

It's not a huge barrier, but it's still a barrier. I have lots of infra using Helm/K8s, sometimes Docker. These .env files don't have `export` keywords in them.

So your suggestion is to munge these for local development. And you're okay with that barrier? That's terrible dx, and it adds surface area for bugs.

A sourced .env would have to be correct shell syntax for a sourced environment file, yes.

But a lot of env file doesn't do that iirc. `allexport` solves this though.

You can implement that in a simple shell function anyway.

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