From 6646daab4543edb9b530c0d4a9e97ca8b4d02984 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: soumil-07 <82497827+soumil-07@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 22:17:11 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] source config from $NU_CONFIG_DIR if it exists (#3883)

---
 crates/nu-data/src/config.rs | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crates/nu-data/src/config.rs b/crates/nu-data/src/config.rs
index 77bd5e43f9..33ab3c1e96 100644
--- a/crates/nu-data/src/config.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-data/src/config.rs
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ use nu_protocol::{
     Value,
 };
 use nu_source::{SpannedItem, Tag, TaggedItem};
+use std::env::var;
 use std::fs::{self, OpenOptions};
 use std::io;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
@@ -168,7 +169,9 @@ pub fn config_path() -> Result<PathBuf, ShellError> {
 
     let dir = ProjectDirs::from("org", "nushell", "nu")
         .ok_or_else(|| ShellError::untagged_runtime_error("Couldn't find project directory"))?;
-    let path = ProjectDirs::config_dir(&dir).to_owned();
+    let path = var("NU_CONFIG_DIR").map_or(ProjectDirs::config_dir(&dir).to_owned(), |path| {
+        PathBuf::from(path)
+    });
     std::fs::create_dir_all(&path).map_err(|err| {
         ShellError::untagged_runtime_error(&format!("Couldn't create {} path:\n{}", "config", err))
     })?;