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It’s very useful to be able to exclude certain files or directories when using tar. Here’s how I did in Leopard:

tar czvf FILENAME.tgz --exclude={.svn,wiki*,static} FILES_OR_DIRS_TO_TAR

Put a reference to the private key file in ~/.ssh/config, for example:

IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Source: FAQS.org