This package automatically compares your .env an .env.example files and notifies you when there are differences.

The preferred way of installing this package is through composer:

composer require kielabokkie/dotenv-diff

Once the package is installed there are two ways of running the Dotenv diff automatically, either by using git hooks or composer scripts.

First of all you can have the Dotenv diff run automatically when you do a git pull. To set this up you'll need to copy over the supplied post-merge git hook to your .git/hooks folder.

From the root of your project execute the following command:

cp vendor/kielabokkie/dotenv-diff/git/hooks/post-merge .git/hooks/

Note: this will overwrite your existing post-merge hook so if you already have one you'll need to figure out how to combine multiple post merge hooks

You can also set it up so it runs whenever you run composer commands like composer install or composer update.

All you need to do is call the run method from the scripts section of your composer.json file:

{
    "scripts": {
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "Kielabokkie\\DotenvDiff::run"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "Kielabokkie\\DotenvDiff::run"
        ]
    }
}