transient not reading values file when location is custom

[mtwomey]

What did you expect to happen?

I update my transient variables:

  (setq transient-values-file "~/.doom.d/.transient/values.el"
       transient-history-file "~/.doom.d/.transient/history.el"
       transient-levels-file "~/.doom.d/.transient/levels.el"))

Now the saved transient preferences in magit are saved and loaded from these files.

What actually happened?

This works for writing. Saving preferences in magit (with C-x C-s) saves values to this location (in the values file). However after restarting emacs the values are not read in magit. Note: the variables are still successfully set to this custom location, the file is simply not being used.

Describe your attempts to resolve the issue

Tried setting these variables at different times, was unable to find a setup that worked.

Steps to reproduce

1. Set the variables to point to a different custom location
2. Save some new preferences
3. Quite and restart emacs
4. Observe if the preferences are taking effect in magit

[tarsius]

These variables are used when transient is loaded, so if you set them after it has already been loaded, then that has no effect.

[mtwomey]

On thanks, confirmed this is related to doom package loading details.