global mise.lock

[jdx]

the workflow around global lockfiles needs to be thought out. In particular, it should permit being able to use ~/.config/mise/mise.lock in order to track urls in #5629 but otherwise should allow mise behavior like being able to set node = "20" in multiple projects. Note that the global config may not define node = "20" at all but we still want to track at least the URL for tracking and reducing API rate limits.

I think for this to work correctly we would want to store all versions ever installed into the global lockfile even if they're in local lockfiles and never remove any.

[jdx]

hmm maybe an alternative to this would be not using a lockfile but adding a new file format type used in the cache directory—just treat the urls but probably not checksums as cache data

[jdx]

hmm I just realized this probably is a bad idea. The URLs could change and the lockfile would always be wrong