vscode show only info exclude from dot git.json

{
    "files.exclude": {
        // show .git/info/exclude in file tree, while still hiding everything else in .git
        "**/.git": false, "**/.git/{[^i]*,i,i[^n]*,in,in[^f]*,inf,inf[^o]*,info/[^e]*,info/e,info/e[^x]*,info/ex,info/ex[^c]*,info/exc,info/exc[^l]*,info/excl,info/excl[^u]*,info/exclu,info/exclu[^d]*,info/exclud,info/exclud[^e]*,info/exclude?*}": true,
    },
}

ZZZ_code_to_generate_it.py

import itertools, json, sys

def pairwise_sentinel(iterable):
    return itertools.pairwise(itertools.chain(iterable, (pairwise_sentinel.sentinel,)))
pairwise_sentinel.sentinel = object()

def iter_capinfo(iterable):
    """like enumerate(), but gives you (item, is_first, is_last) pairs"""
    first = True
    for cur, nxt in pairwise_sentinel(iterable):
        yield cur, first, (nxt is pairwise_sentinel.sentinel)
        first = False

def foo(base_exclude: str, exception: str):
    """generate config to exclude all files in `base_exclude` except for `exception`"""
    assert not exception.endswith('/')
    def inner():
        so_far = ''
        for chunk in exception.split('/'):
            for char, _, char_islast in iter_capinfo(chunk):
                assert char not in '{}[]?*'  # no special glob stuff in the exception
                assert char not in ','  # grouping these, so also can't have the group delimiter
                yield f'{so_far}[^{char}]*'
                if not char_islast: yield f'{so_far}{char}'
                so_far += char
            so_far += '/'
        yield f'{exception}?*'  # one final glob to get any files that start with the name
    return {
        base_exclude: False,
        f'''{base_exclude}/{{{','.join(inner())}}}''': True,
    }

json.dump(foo('**/.git', 'info/exclude'), sys.stdout)