Help importing .nix files into flakes

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Hi There

I am unable to import any config or .nix files into a flake. Ultimately, I am trying to manage my dotfiles via xdg.configFile. .... .source = modules/config.nix for example. However, when I run the flake to build the config I get

error:
       … while calling the 'derivationStrict' builtin

         at /builtin/derivation.nix:9:12: (source not available)

for example, a line that I am trying to use to manage my alacritty .config: xdg.configFile."alacritty/alacritty.yaml".source = modules/alacritty.nix;

I have tried various other ways, using import in either the flake or home.nix file but wherever I put it I am getting the same error, it is as if flakes are unable to import any external .nix or conf files by design?

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Have you tried setting it to ./modules/alacritty.nix?

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yeah I have tried that, I have also tried absolute paths, moving alacritty.nix to the current dir and just using alacritty.nix but no matter which way I do it I get the same error.

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It’s probably that Flakes only includes Git-tracked files in the evaluation, so you need to git add the file before it can be used

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Thanks for the reply, all files are added to git.

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Can you produce an MRE or post your configuration?