Specify files and directories to exclude in a file when compressing with the tar

# Ubuntu
$ man tar
...
       -X, --exclude-from=FILE
              Exclude files matching patterns listed in FILE.

# macOS
$ man tar
...
     -X filename, --exclude-from filename
             Read a list of exclusion patterns from the specified file.  See --exclude for more information about the handling of exclusions.

$ cat exclude.txt
./file1
./dir2
./.git

$ tar -zcvf archive.tar.gz --exclude="PATTERN" --exclude-from exclude.txt ./