Add support for exceptions to files.exclude

[sparr]

The files.exclude setting allows certain file patterns to be excluded from search results and the Explorer sidebar. However, there does not seem to be a mechanism for specifying exceptions to this, which makes it difficult to impossible to exclude, e.g., a whole directory except for one file that should remain visible.

gitignore addresses this with a leading ! inverting a pattern, including the matching files as exceptions to earlier excludes. That level of functionality would be nice here, but simply having a single files.include to list exceptions in a single pass after files.exclude is applied would still be useful.

[sparr]

My use case for this feature is to write a script or extension to automatically synchronize the file exclude/include patterns in my vscode workspace with the gitignore file(s) affecting the workspace folder(s).

[IllusionMH]

/duplicate of #869 and #134415

Please upvote relevant issues and add use cases there if necessary

[vscodenpa]

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