Comment 23 for bug 374274

I'm adding a vote for this issue. For me, regex matching on paths would do. A good interface would list files or directories (if a directory is excluded, you don't need to list every file inside it) that the filters hit.

My use case is that I wan't to backup my Dev-folder (sure, most stuff is on external git-server but sometimes I have big branches that are not yet ready to be published). However, npm and bower creates lots of files that are unnecessary to backup. Beeing able to exclude these files would decrease backup time (first priority) and backup size (not that important).