A way to refresh devbox shell

[Nikola-Milovic]

What problem are you trying to solve?

When using devbox with git worktrees and switching between worktrees while in a devbox shell, the environment breaks:

cd ~/projects/myapp && devbox shell
wt switch feature-a  # switches to ~/projects/myapp.feature-a/
which node  # empty - PATH is broken
devbox shell  # Error: Shell inception is not supportedThe only fix is `exit` then `devbox shell` again.

What solution would you like?

A way to refresh the environment without exiting:

devbox refresh # or: devbox shell --reinit This would re-source the devbox environment from the current directory's devbox.json.

Alternatives you've considered

Currently doing it manually, but its very annoying

Environment

• devbox version: 0.16.0
• OS: Nixos 25.11
• Shell: bash

[LorenzBischof]

I am still new to Devbox, but isn't this what the refresh alias does? I did notice that it does not re-execute init_hook though. In my case this was a problem because of the Go template setting GOROOT to a specific Nix store path. I changed to using ${DEVBOX_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/go and that seems to work, but is something to be aware of.

[Nikola-Milovic]

@LorenzBischof Sorry, what alias are you referring to exactly?

[LorenzBischof]

Try entering a devbox shell and running alias refresh

[Nikola-Milovic]

@LorenzBischof Oh interesting, wasn't aware of that, thanks