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List The Files Being Loaded By Mise

While running mise for the first time, after adding a mise.toml file to a project, I noticed something strange. Instead of invoking the command I had specified (mise run dev), several parellel tool downloads were kicked off. In addition to Ruby, it was installing an older version of Postgres, and lua. What gives?

By running mise cfg, I can list all the files being loaded by mise and get to the bottom of this.

mise cfg

Path                         Tools
~/.tool-versions             node, ruby, postgres, lua
~/code/still/.ruby-version   ruby
~/code/still/Gemfile         (none)
~/code/still/.tool-versions  ruby
~/code/still/mise.toml       (none)

I was only thinking about the files local to my project and I forgot that I have a system-wide .tool-versions file. As we can see from the output, that file specifies postgres and lua as well. Mise wanted to ensure that it had downloaded the specified versions of each of those tools before running my task.

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