If there is already a way to handle this I apologize, looked around but didn't find anything.

Given a client spec
//depot/test/... //client/test/...
with an exclude list such as
//depot/test/exclude/...
and polling turned on-

if someone submits a changelist with an excluded file and a file outside the client spec such as
changelist 1234
//depot/test/exclude/example.txt#1
//depot/test2/example2.txt#1

then //depot/test2/example2.txt#1 will trigger the build as it does not match anything in the exclude list.

I would like a way to consider any files outside of the client spec as excluded files without actually having to specify them. Thanks!