Is is possible to overide the .envfile?

[vesnikos]

having a task defined as eg bellow:

[tool.poe.tasks.runserver]
envfile = ".env.dev"

is it possible to overide the envfile param manually on the cli? e.g.

poe runserver --env-file .env.prod

[nat-n]

Hi @vesnikos,

That's an interesting idea, but I'm afraid there's currently no way to dynamically switch between envfiles for a task.

Hypothetically providing an envfile with an argument wouldn't fit very well with how poe works. The closest thing that would work would be if the poe CLI accepted an --env-file argument independently of the task being run, but I don't think this would generally be a very convenient feature to use.

However there are two ways that you could approach this:

1. What I would probably do is to define two tasks, each with their own configured envfile e.g. serve and serve-prod
2. You could also define one task that accepts an --envfile argument (which may have a default value), but then you would have to implement the envfile loading for yourself within the task somehow.