Ignore files during parsing deployment

It would be great to be able to ignore files during the Parse.com deployment process. Perhaps using a .parseignore or .deployignore file or something else.

This feature has been requested many times at minimum resolution. Here are some links from a year ago about user queries:

https://www.parse.com/questions/ignore-files-on-deploy

https://www.parse.com/questions/ignore-files-on-deploy--2

https://www.parse.com/questions/is-there-a-way-to-explicitly-ignore-files-with-deploy

http://goo.gl/5JyP3z

Disassemble the development team, take advantage of this feature, or let the community do it! Thanks to