Overrides not working in .cluster-api/ only in .config/cluster-api

[ryjogo]

What steps did you take and what happened?

clusterctl generate cluster k8s-management --infrastructure vsphere --kubernetes-version v1.29.1 --control-plane-machine-count 1 --worker-machine-count 1 --flavor=test -v8 --infrastructure vsphere:v1.9.0 > /dev/null

This should use overrides from ~/.cluster-api/overrides yet this wasn't found. Upon stepping through a debugger i noticed that the path at https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/blob/main/cmd/clusterctl/client/repository/overrides.go#L110 was set to the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cluster-api location - perhaps from this change: #6913 ?

Once i moved my overrides to ~/.config/cluster-api/overrides this was then picked up:

ryan@box:~$ clusterctl generate cluster k8s-management --infrastructure vsphere --kubernetes-version v1.29.1 --control-plane-machine-count 1 --worker-machine-count 1 --flavor=test -v8 --infrastructure vsphere:v1.9.0 > /dev/null
Using configuration File="/home/ryan/.cluster-api/clusterctl.yaml"
Using Override="cluster-template-test.yaml" Provider="infrastructure-vsphere" Version="v1.9.0"
...

What did you expect to happen?

According to the docs, overrides can be picked up from both ~/.cluster-api/overrides or ~/.config/cluster-api/overrides

Cluster API version

1.6.1

Kubernetes version

No response

Anything else you would like to add?

No response

Label(s) to be applied

/kind bug
/area clusterctl
/area provider/vmware

[fabriziopandini]

/triage accepted
I don't remember in detail the change for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME but we should look into it and eventually fix or improve documentation
/help

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/triage accepted
I don't remember in detail the change for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME but we should look into it and eventually fix or improve documentation
/help

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[fabriziopandini]

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/priority backlog