For what it’s worth I think (modern) msbuild does it the best way I’ve seen so far. It operates on a “mostly” include by default. By that I mean the compilers “know” what are valid files, and everything valid in and below the project dir is included by default. You can edit the project file if you wish to include or exclude specific files or directories. Before dotnet core, you had to specify every file (ignore by default). Visual Studio would handle that for you, but adding new files often lead to version control conflicts.

Ultimately what I’m trying to say is that msbuild has a good set of default globbing rules and it’s very easy to fine tune.