diff --git a/phing/files/deploy-exclude.txt b/phing/files/deploy-exclude.txt
index d6ea4d987..6608cb0aa 100644
--- a/phing/files/deploy-exclude.txt
+++ b/phing/files/deploy-exclude.txt
@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@
 /docroot/themes/contrib
 /drush/contrib
 /drush.wrapper
+/patches
 /project.yml
 /README.md
 /readme
 /tests
+/tmp
 /Vagrantfile
 .git
 .gitignore