Feature request: support negation operator for .quartoignore

[jimjam-slam]

Starter templates can include a .quartoignore file to manually specify which files to exclude from the template. It says it uses a .gitignore-type syntax, but one omission from this is that it doesn't appear to support a negation operator ! to force Quarto to include a file that would otherwise be excluded using its default settings.

In my case, I'd like to include a .gitignore with my template, as it's designed to work with other file types, and I'd like to suggest to my users which files they should ignore (eg. node_modules) and which they should version control (eg. .luarc.json).

It'd be great if I could add !.gitignore to .quartoignore to force my suggested git ignore to be included with the template!

[dragonstyle]

TY for the detailed write outline, I agree that this does seem like an oversight. I've opened an issue and will try to get to it soon!

[jimjam-slam]

Thanks very much! 😊

[mcanouil]

Closing this as completed and in favour of #4061