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+Enhancement: Add restore flags to read include and exclude patterns from files
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+Restic now supports reading include and exclude patterns from files using the 
+`--include-file`, `--exclude-file`, `--iinclude-file` and `--iexclude-file` 
+flags.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/4781
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4811
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