Loading default config from parent directories

[Binbose]

Hey, I am having a very simple problem but seem to not get it to work. I want to load a default config, that contains user specific paths, and load it into other configs. My folder structure looks like this:

/user/profile.yaml

and

/task/... subdirectories .../my_task.yaml

I am trying to load profile.yaml in my task.yaml like this:

defaults:
  - ../... walking up subdirectories .../user/profile


dataset_path: ${dataset_path}

But it doesnt work. The path is set correctly, because it doesnt throw an error while load, and I can print the the config object. But for some reason hydra creates a very deep nested dictionary

{'': {'': {'': {'': {'': {'': {'': {'': {'dataset_path': '...'}}}}}}}}}

Any hints how to do this correctly?