Zend certified PHP/Magento developer

Use git-like local ignore files in s3cmd

s3cmd can exclude files from an explicitly specified file with the --exclude-from option. However, I would like the ability to drop something like an .s3ignore file into an arbitrarily nested directory and define some local ignore rules without always having to add to an increasingly complex and hard to maintain global ignore file. Is this possible short of writing my own wrapper around s3cmd?