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Fixes the confusion in #14711: find_up = true on env._.file silently changed where the search starts. Every other relative path in a config resolves against the config root, but find_up started at the current directory.

Now a relative find_up path starts at the config root and walks up through its parents, which suits a monorepo whose root .env applies to every package:

# mise.toml
[env]
_.file = { path = ".env", find_up = true }

An absolute path starts at its own directory and searches that directory and each parent for the file name. A global config that wants to search from wherever mise runs says so explicitly with cwd:

# ~/.config/mise/config.toml
[env]
_.file = { path = "{{cwd}}/.env", find_up = true }

Compatibility

find_up shipped in v2026.10.12 (and the multi-name path list in v2026.10.14). A global config with a relative find_up entry used to search from the current directory; it now searches from ~, so it stops finding project files. Add {{cwd}}/ in front of the path to keep the old behavior. The env_file setting still discovers dotenv files up from the current directory and is unchanged.

Validation

• e2e: env/test_env_file_find_up, env/test_env_file_find_up_group, config/test_paranoid_categories, config/test_paranoid_env_file_trust, plus a new env/test_env_file_find_up_hook_env that activates bash, changes directories, and edits a loaded file.
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo test -p mise-config pass.

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Changes core env file resolution semantics with a documented breaking change for global relative find_up; affects every project using _.file find_up and activated-shell hooks.

Overview
env._.file with find_up = true no longer walks up from the process current directory. Relative paths now behave like other config paths: search starts at the config root and continues through parent directories (better for monorepo root .env from a package mise.toml).

Absolute paths (including {{cwd}}/.env in a global config) start at that path’s directory and search upward for the file name; normalize_dots keeps .. in absolute starts from climbing back into skipped subtrees. Multi-name path lists still group by shared start directory and preserve override order.

Docs, JSON schema, and comments describe the new rules. E2E and paranoid-trust fixtures use {{cwd}}/ where global configs must discover repo dotenv files; a new hook-env test covers directory changes and file edits under mise activate.

Compatibility: global configs that relied on relative find_up from cwd must prefix with {{cwd}}/; the env_file setting is unchanged.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • With find_up enabled, relative environment-file paths now search from the config file’s directory through its parents. Absolute paths search from their own directory and continue upward.
  • For grouped paths, files in nearer directories override files in farther directories; within a directory, later paths take precedence.
• Documentation
  • Updated environment-file search guidance and examples to explain these rules.

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📝 Walkthrough

find_up now searches relative environment-file paths from the config file’s directory and absolute paths from their normalized parent directories. Search grouping and load precedence are covered by end-to-end tests, which also check environment updates after directory changes and file edits.

Changes: Environment file search

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Search roots and path resolution src/config/env_directive/file.rs, crates/mise-config/src/env.rs, crates/mise-config/src/env/decl.rs, schema/mise*.json, docs/environments/index.md	find_up searches relative patterns from the config root and absolute-path filenames from their normalized parent directories. Patterns are grouped by starting directory, and the implementation preserves directory and name precedence. Documentation and schema descriptions reflect these search roots.
Search roots and path precedence tests e2e/env/test_env_file_find_up, e2e/env/test_env_file_find_up_group, e2e/config/test_paranoid_categories, e2e/config/test_paranoid_env_file_trust	End-to-end tests cover project and global config roots, grouped and absolute path ordering, templated paths, and paths containing ... Global test configurations use {{cwd}} when the search should start at the invocation directory.
Hook environment updates e2e/env/test_env_file_find_up_hook_env	The Bash end-to-end test checks environment values after directory changes, after editing a loaded file, and when using an absolute path.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7009a

No actionable merge-blocking risk was established for the changed environment-file search behavior.

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Summary

env._.file searches with find_up now start relative paths at the config root. Absolute paths start at their own directory.

• find_up searches from the config root or an absolute path’s directory.

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e2e/env/test_env_file_find_up: 1

30-30: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the global relative path loads a file from the config root.

This assertion passes if global relative find_up entries stop loading files entirely. Put a distinct .env in $MISE_CONFIG_DIR and assert that this config loads its value. Keep the existing check that it does not load FROM_PROJ. This tests both sides of the changed search-root behavior.

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Review comment at @e2e/env/test_env_file_find_up at line 30:
Update the `test_env_file_find_up` test to create a distinct `.env` in
`$MISE_CONFIG_DIR` and assert that running `mise env -s bash` from
`proj/sub/deep` loads its value. Preserve the existing assertion that this
config does not load `FROM_PROJ`, so the test verifies both loading from the
config root and excluding the project value.

e2e/env/test_env_file_find_up_hook_env: 1

42-44: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Check the absolute path from outside proj.

At proj/sub, the previous {{cwd}}/.env entry also finds proj/.env. The final assertion therefore passes even if the hook ignores the new absolute-path configuration. After writing that configuration, change to other, run _mise_hook, and assert that FROM_PROJ remains edited. Only the absolute path should find the file from there.

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Review comment at @e2e/env/test_env_file_find_up_hook_env around lines 42 - 44:
Update the test flow around `_mise_hook` to change into `other` after writing
the absolute-path configuration, run the hook there, and assert that `FROM_PROJ`
remains `edited`; this verifies the configured absolute path works independently
of the `proj/.env` file found from `proj/sub`.

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Review comments at @e2e/env/test_env_file_find_up:
- Line 30: Update the `test_env_file_find_up` test to create a distinct `.env`
in `$MISE_CONFIG_DIR` and assert that running `mise env -s bash` from
`proj/sub/deep` loads its value. Preserve the existing assertion that this
config does not load `FROM_PROJ`, so the test verifies both loading from the
config root and excluding the project value.

Review comments at @e2e/env/test_env_file_find_up_hook_env:
- Around line 42-44: Update the test flow around `_mise_hook` to change into
`other` after writing the absolute-path configuration, run the hook there, and
assert that `FROM_PROJ` remains `edited`; this verifies the configured absolute
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• e2e/config/test_paranoid_env_file_trust
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Instruction counts

Nothing was compared, and so nothing was gated. No series appears on both sides: either the base has no measurements recorded, or the two were measured on different runner classes, which are deliberately not comparable — counts shift between machine types by more than a real regression does.

New, nothing to compare against: env on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, hook-env on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, ls on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, registry on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143, startup on jdx-perf-v1-ubuntu24.04-x64-mise-rust1.97.1-img5263c143

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