Jakob Borg

Yes. I think this a fairly natural consequence/extension of the new restore functionality.

I don't think the config reference is a good place for this. Also, it concerns several other options.

I'm not convinced. I see how that's useful in your case, but what about the hundreds of other kinds of files people might want excluded (temp and lock files for...

Yeah, so I responded to the "default entries" and not really to the "global ignore list" part. A global (as in it applies to every folder on a given device)...

@kozec Theoretically you could automate it through syncthing though, today, using a POST request to the admin interface to set the ignore list per folder. @AudriusButkevicius that should probably be...

`Icon\?` should match precisely that filename and not `Icons` etc.

No, that matches a file called `Icon?`, with the question mark at the end. The backslash makes sure the question mark is interpreted as a literal question mark and not...

Patch and reasoning looks reasonable to me, but could you file an issue on the actual problem, which can be resolved by this PR and included in the release notes?

Yeah Tomasz' comment from above applies. We have a bunch of detection logic for the config directory to track all the XDG dances we've had over the years, probably need...

Closing as adding complications while it's possible to handle today with various overrides, as mentioned above or `$STHOME` depending on which definition of home directory we're talking about.