Is there a way to run experiment when it's located outside of folder containing main config?

Question

So I have the following structure:

project_config.yaml is the main config file:

@hydra.main(config_path="configs/project_config", config_name="project_config.yaml")
def my_app(cfg: DictConfig) -> None:
    print(OmegaConf.to_yaml(cfg))

Hovewer, when I try to run some_experiment.yaml like this:

python test.py +experiment_configs=some_experiments

it does't get found. The problem doesn't exist if I place experiment_configs folder inside project_config folder, however, I'd like the folder with experiments to be outside. Is there a way to run experiment when it's located outside of project_config folder?

Answer 1

You can use --config-dir to add an additional directory to the config search path. See --hydra-help or check the docs here.