Archive all files from root and exclude some

[hellor0bot]

I'm trying to archive all files from the root folder except for some of them.

Here's the array of all files and exceptions:

  var themeFileList = [
    '**/*',
    '!archive.zip',
    '!.sass-cache/*',
    '!assets/*',
    '!node_modules/*',
    '!.bowerrc',
    '!.editorconfig',
    '!.gitattributes',
    '!.gitignore',
    '!.jshintrc',
    '!bower.json',
    '!Gruntfile.js',
    '!package.json',
    '!README.md',
    '!sublime.sublime-project',
    '!sublime.sublime-workspace',
  ];

Here's the config:

    compress: {
      main: {
        options: {
          archive: 'archive.zip'
        },
        files: [
          { src: [themeFileList], dest: 'archive/' }, // includes files in path
        ]
      }
    }

Seems that it's an endless loop.

I can successfully archive some files from a folder to another folder by using cwd, however is there a way to archive all files with some exceptions from the root folder to the root folder?