How to exclude one table from automatic code first migrations in the Entity Framework?

This is now possible in EF Core 5.0 using the ExcludeFromMigrations() method, but strangely enough you have to call the ToTable() method and then use the TableBuilder.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-entity-framework-core-efcore-5-0-rc1/#exclude-tables-from-migrations

public class ReportingContext : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<User> Users { get; set; }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        modelBuilder.Entity<User>().ToTable(nameof(Users), t => t.ExcludeFromMigrations());
    }
}

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