Ah I see. I didn't know what datasette was. The way I see doing includes/excludes at query time is this. You run a search without excludes for example. You see

Ah I see. I didn't know what datasette was. The way I see doing includes/excludes at query time is this. You run a search without excludes for example. You see a bunch of stuff coming back all in one directory that you don't want for this particular search. So you add an exclude rule for that directory. And then just refine results that way. If you have a bunch of similarly named directories, then I think that just means that the exclude rules at query time need to be more specific. e.g., use the full path to the directory. I think the feature being requested here is an interactive feature of the user interface, where as ignore files are more like a static fact of a directory tree.