Molecule config file in {project}/.config/molecule/config.yml not found

[erichoog]

Prerequisites

• This was not already reported in the past (duplicate check)
• It does reproduce it with code from main branch (latest unreleased version)
• I include a minimal example for reproducing the bug
• The bug is not trivial, as for those a direct pull-request is preferred
• Running pip check does not report any conflicts
• I was able to reproduce the issue on a different machine
• The issue is not specific to any driver other than 'default' one

Environment

OS Release: Red Hat 8.9

$molecule --version
molecule 6.0.3 using python 3.11 
    ansible:2.16.2
    azure:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins
    containers:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: ansible.posix>=1.3.0 community.docker>=1.9.1 containers.podman>=1.8.1
    default:6.0.3 from molecule
    docker:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: community.docker>=3.0.2 ansible.posix>=1.4.0
    ec2:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins
    gce:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: google.cloud>=1.0.2 community.crypto>=1.8.0
    podman:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins requiring collections: containers.podman>=1.7.0 ansible.posix>=1.3.0
    vagrant:23.5.0 from molecule_plugins

What happened

ISSUE:
Molecule settings put into {PROJECT_DIR}/.config/molecule/config.yml are not found or used, but they are if I move .config/molecule/.config.yml to my user home directory.

EXPECTATIONS:
Molecule documentation states that we can put configurations into {PROJECT_DIR}/.config/molecule/config.yml or into ~/.config/molecule/config.yml So both options should work.

EXAMPLE:
My example directory structure:

$ tree -a my_project/
my_project/
├── .config
│   └── molecule
│       └── config.yml
└── roles
    └── somerole
        └── molecule
            └── default
                ├── converge.yml
                ├── create.yml
                ├── destroy.yml
                └── molecule.yml

Here are the contents of config.yml:

---
driver:
  name: docker

Here's what I see if I configure using ~/.config/molecule/config.yml - it finds the file and the settings are used, this is good:

$ molecule converge
INFO     Found config file /home/my_user/.config/molecule/config.yml

When I remove that ~/.config/molecule/config.yml and only have ./my_project/.config/molecule/config.ymlit does not read these settings. I tried moving the .config directory to all different levels within the project dir with no luck.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION
I believe the issue lies in the find_vcs_root function in the file util.py

Adding , ".config" into the dirs variable in the find_vcs_root function definition line seems to resolve the issue for me:

def find_vcs_root(location="", dirs=(".git", ".hg", ".svn", ".config"), default=None) -> str:

I wanted to submit this as a PR as it seems fairly trivial but I am having issues getting my environment configured correctly. I apologize in advance if I did not contribute this exactly to the guidelines.

Reproducing example

No response

[ssbarnea]

A PR that fixes this would be welcomed.