diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2b38251..5dfc508 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -255,10 +255,13 @@ Optional:
 
 * The `#watch` method allows you to define which files are supervised by this guard. An optional block can be added to overwrite the paths sent to the guard's `#run_on_change` method or to launch any arbitrary command.
 * The `#group` method allows you to group several guards together. Groups to be run can be specified with the Guard DSL option `--group` (or `-g`). This comes in handy especially when you have a huge Guardfile and want to focus your development on a certain part. Guards that don't belong to a group are considered global and are always run.
+* The `#ignore_paths` method allows you to ignore top level directories altogether.  This comes is handy when you have large amounts of non-source data in you project.  By default .bundle, .git, log, tmp, and vendor are ignored.  Currently it is only possible to ignore the immediate descendants of the watched directory.
 
 Example:
 
 ``` ruby
+ignore_paths 'foo', 'bar'
+
 group 'backend' do
   guard 'bundler' do
     watch('Gemfile')
diff --git a/lib/guard/dsl.rb b/lib/guard/dsl.rb
index e7d5e6d..c8797b9 100644
--- a/lib/guard/dsl.rb
+++ b/lib/guard/dsl.rb
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ module Guard
     end
 
     def ignore_paths(*paths)
+      UI.info "Ignoring paths: #{paths.join(', ')}"
       ::Guard.listener.ignore_paths.push(*paths)
     end
   end
diff --git a/lib/guard/listener.rb b/lib/guard/listener.rb
index d9c6bc5..3c02b41 100644
--- a/lib/guard/listener.rb
+++ b/lib/guard/listener.rb
@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ module Guard
     def relativize_paths?
       !!@relativize_paths
     end
-
+    
+    # return children of the passed dirs that are not in the ignore_paths list
     def exclude_ignored_paths(dirs, ignore_paths = self.ignore_paths)
       Dir.glob(dirs.map { |d| "#{d.sub(%r{/+$}, '')}/*" }, File::FNM_DOTMATCH).reject do |path|
         ignore_paths.include?(File.basename(path))