syntax:re

# complex regex to ignore all but what I want from dotfiles
^\.(?!bashrc$|best_unicode|elisp|emacs$|gitconfig$|hg|inputrc$|ipython|irbrc$|pdbrc\.py$|python|screenrc$|shell\.d|vim|zfun|zsh)

# above RE fails to exclude viminfo
\.viminfo
# above RE fails to exclude history or machine-specific files
^\..*(?=history|machine).*

# No pid files
.*\.pid$

#one-off file/directory exclusions
hgwebdir\.conf
^Desktop
^Documents
^Downloads
^Dropbox
^Library
^Misc. Stuff
^Movies
^Music
^Pictures
^Programming
^Public
^Sites
^durin42_html
^public_html
^www