Proposal: Better management of ignore patterns

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@harrisonhjones I try to understand your use-case. Why do you want to include ignore files outside of the shared folder? How does it save your time or give you practical flexibility? :thinking: As Syncthing is not a multi-user sync, you can’t force it on teams anyway. And setting up ignore pattern on two different computer once shouldn’t be a too big hassle?

For me I would like to see:

  1. the patterns to follow .gitignore logic (more on this issue here).

  2. Included ignore files should be relative to their own path (instead of from the sync-folder parent) → or .stignore should be placable like .gitignore everywhere (they are applied automatically) → no need for include statements

  3. To have a dropbox-like GUI to select and unselect folder (and eventually files) that would be written to the main-folder .stignore file image

1+2 together can be simplified by: “stignore should behaves similar to gitignore”.