Yes, that sounds very cool. It would definitely allow for more personalised configuration. My solution is really just a quick, brute-force workaround 
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Awesome, then weâre at least two who would use it! The question still stands if thereâs a wide enough use-case for it. However, I havenât really developed in Go, so I wouldnât know where/how to start 
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You can already achieve that by using include directive.
Thatâs true, however the current implementation does not allow including a file when the folder is added to a device. Adding for example #include .globalstignore to the rules when initially adding a folder will just throw an error, as the file doesnât exist locally yet, which makes sense.
However I think it would be much better if Syncthing instead would pull the file(s) specified in the include(s) (if they exist in the cluster), apply those rules, and then begin pulling all other files.
The error thrown is this one
2020-08-02 19:13:19 Error on folder "Test" (94clu-ucu8j): loading ignores: failed to load include file .globalstignore: open \\?\[folder path]\.globalstignore: Det gÄr inte att hitta filen.One solution could be a flag for optional includes (missing is not an error) combined with default ignore patterns (we want those anyhow).
Chicken-and-egg problem remains, but thatâs the case with any synced-ignores setupâŠ