Setting environment variables not working as expected

[fabge]

I want to set environment variables by leveraging .env files in folders. I have set export MISE_ENV_FILE=.env in my .zshrc.
mise does recognize values inside the .env files but doesn't set them as environment variables.

I have a .env file in the directory debug with following content:

HELLO=world

I can observe the following:

cd debug
echo $HELLO
# No Output
mise env
# export HELLO=world
# export PATH='...

I am unsure if I am misunderstanding how this is supposed to work. I was expecting the environment variable HELLO to be set, when cding in to a folder which contains a .env file.

mise doctor output

mise version:
  2024.2.4 macos-arm64 (2024-02-03)

build:
  Target: aarch64-apple-darwin
  Features: DEFAULT, NATIVE_TLS
  Built: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 03:13:22 +0000
  Rust Version: rustc 1.75.0 (82e1608df 2023-12-21) (Homebrew)
  Profile: release

shell:
  /bin/zsh
  zsh 5.9 (x86_64-apple-darwin23.0)

mise data directory:
  /Users/fabian/.local/share/mise

mise environment variables:
  MISE_ENV_FILE=.env
  MISE_SHELL=zsh

settings:
  activate_aggressive = false
  all_compile = false
  always_keep_download = false
  always_keep_install = false
  asdf_compat = false
  cargo_binstall = true
  color = true
  disable_default_shorthands = false
  disable_tools = []
  experimental = false
  jobs = 4
  legacy_version_file = true
  legacy_version_file_disable_tools = []
  node_compile = false
  not_found_auto_install = true
  paranoid = false
  plugin_autoupdate_last_check_duration = "7d"
  python_compile = false
  python_default_packages_file = "/Users/fabian/.default-python-packages"
  python_pyenv_repo = "https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git"
  python_venv_auto_create = false
  raw = false
  trusted_config_paths = []
  quiet = false
  verbose = false
  yes = false
  ci = false
  debug = false
  env_file = ".env"
  trace = false
  log_level = "info"

  [status]
  missing_tools = "if_other_versions_installed"
  show_env = false
  show_tools = false


config files:
  ~/.config/mise/config.toml

plugins:
  bun      (core)
  deno     (core)
  go       (core)
  java     (core)
  node     (core)
  python   (core)
  ruby     (core)

toolset:
  python@3.12, node@20

[jdx]

are you using shims?

[fabge]

no, but i omitted the following error from posting, when running brew doctor:

1 problem found:
shims are missing, run mise reshim to create them
Missing shims: ghpath, rst2html4.py, mid3iconv, gh-create-workflow, jp.py, rst2html.py, uvicorn, rst2html5.py, unidecode, rstpep2html.py, pelican-plugins, mid3cp, rst2latex.py, markdown-it, markdown_py, zspotify, docutils, django-admin, f2py, pelican-themes, rst2xml.py, rst2man.py, mutagen-inspect, ghapi, pelican-import, moggsplit, mutagen-pony, pygmentize, mid3v2, rst2pseudoxml.py, rst2odt.py, rst2s5.py, ghraw, watchfiles, normalizer, tqdm, completion-ghapi, pelican, wsdump, pelican-quickstart, sqlformat, rst2xetex.py, rst2odt_prepstyles.py

[fabge]

thanks for the quick fix!