`Proposal`: add option with exclude/keep specified type on deep type

[Emiyaaaaa]

Look at this scene

I have a type Item that wrapped with some util type, and I want get a simplify Item, like:

import type { SimplifyDeep } from 'type-fest/source/merge-deep'

type SimplifyItem = SimplifyDeep<Item>
// => expect type SimplifyItem = { name: string, color: THREE.Color }

but actual rsult is:

import type { SimplifyDeep } from 'type-fest/source/merge-deep'

type SimplifyItem = SimplifyDeep<Item>
/**
type SimplifyItem = { 
    name: string,
    color: {
            readonly isColor: true;
            r: number;
            g: number;
            b: number;
            set: (color: string | number | Color) => Color;
            ... 31 more ...;
            toArray: {
                ...;
            };
        };
}
*/

so maybe we can add a exclude type option ( or named keep ) on Deep type like:

import type { SimplifyDeep } from 'type-fest/source/merge-deep'

type SimplifyItem = SimplifyDeep<Item, { exclude: THREE.Color }>
// => expect type SimplifyItem = { name: string, color: THREE.Color }

It can also resolve scene conflicts between users, such as one want recursive into HTMLElemet, anther one want keep HTMLElemet

Related comment: https://github.com/sindresorhus/type-fest/issues/651#issuecomment-1803324362 Related issue: #651

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[voxpelli]

One could also do:

type SimplifyItem = SimplifyDeep<Omit<Item, 'color'>> & Pick<Item, 'color'>;

And if one wants a helper to keep it a bit shorter one could do something like this in ones types:

type SimplifyDeepExcept<A, B extends keyof A> = SimplifyDeep<Omit<A,B>> & Pick<A, B>;

Is it common that that needs to exclude something like THREE.Color at an unknown location in an object?

[voxpelli]

Related: https://github.com/sindresorhus/type-fest/issues/719

Kind of requests the opposite: https://github.com/sindresorhus/type-fest/issues/860 (Kind of request an { only: string } rather than an { exclude: string })

[Emiyaaaaa]

type SimplifyItem = SimplifyDeep<Omit<Item, 'color'>> & Pick<Item, 'color'>;

My case is more complicated. THREE.Color is deep in nested object, and must used type to exclude not key, because key could be 'lineColor', 'pointColor' or other in my scene

[sindresorhus]

This proposal makes sense to me.

[Emiyaaaaa]

Sorry, I found I could use ConditionalSimplifyDeep<Item, THREE.Color, object> instead, but other deep type also need this feature.