restic/changelog/0.13.0_2022-03-26/issue-233

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Enhancement: Support negative include/exclude patterns
If a pattern starts with an exclamation mark and it matches a file that was
previously matched by a regular pattern, the match is cancelled. Notably,
this can be used with `--exclude-file` to cancel the exclusion of some files.
It works similarly to `.gitignore`, with the same limitation; Once a directory
is excluded, it is not possible to include files inside the directory.
Example of use as an exclude pattern for the `backup` command:
$HOME/**/*
!$HOME/Documents
!$HOME/code
!$HOME/.emacs.d
!$HOME/games
# [...]
node_modules
*~
*.o
*.lo
*.pyc
# [...]
$HOME/code/linux/*
!$HOME/code/linux/.git
# [...]
https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/233
https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2311