Add option to disable header inclusion check
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Description
### Description of the feature request:
In my CI environment, I see builds randomly fail with errors like this (with protobuf-29.3 imported via MODULE.bazel).
```
this rule is missing dependency declarations for the following files included by 'src/google/protobuf/any_lite.cc':
'bazel-out/k8-opt-exec-ST-d57f47055a04/bin/external/protobuf~/src/google/protobuf/_virtual_includes/protobuf_lite/google/protobuf/port.h'
```
The randomness of this error plus the need to clean the bazel cache (which doesn't always make the error go away) wastes countless hours of time. I would love to have a flag like `--incompatible-ignore-header-checks` which made these errors non-fatal
### Which category does this issue belong to?
C++ Rules
### What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?
Builds failing due to false positives from header inclusion checks
### Which operating system are you running Bazel on?
Ubuntu 22.04
### What is the output of `bazel info release`?
7.4.0
### If `bazel info release` returns `development version` or `(@non-git)`, tell us how you built Bazel.
_No response_
### What's the output of `git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse HEAD` ?
```text
```
### Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
_No response_
### Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce the reported Bazel 7.4.0 failure with protobuf-29.3 imported through MODULE.bazel, focusing on src/google/protobuf/any_lite.cc and the generated port.h path. Trace the header inclusion check and define coverage for the requested flag so the diagnostic becomes non-fatal while default behavior remains unchanged.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100