diff --git a/src/Composer/Package/Archiver/BaseExcludeFilter.php b/src/Composer/Package/Archiver/BaseExcludeFilter.php
index f8c390e41..dca24eb67 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Package/Archiver/BaseExcludeFilter.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Package/Archiver/BaseExcludeFilter.php
@@ -136,12 +136,15 @@ abstract class BaseExcludeFilter
         if (strlen($rule) && $rule[0] === '/') {
             $pattern .= '^/';
             $rule = substr($rule, 1);
-        } elseif (false === strpos($rule, '/') || strlen($rule) - 1 === strpos($rule, '/')) {
+        } elseif (strlen($rule) - 1 === strpos($rule, '/')) {
+            $pattern .= '/';
+            $rule = substr($rule, 0, -1);
+        } elseif (false === strpos($rule, '/')) {
             $pattern .= '/';
         }
 
-        // remove delimiters as well as caret (^) from the regex
-        $pattern .= substr(Finder\Glob::toRegex($rule), 2, -1);
+        // remove delimiters as well as caret (^) and dollar sign ($) from the regex
+        $pattern .= substr(Finder\Glob::toRegex($rule), 2, -2) . '(?=$|/)';
 
         return array($pattern . '#', $negate, false);
     }
diff --git a/tests/Composer/Test/Package/Archiver/ArchivableFilesFinderTest.php b/tests/Composer/Test/Package/Archiver/ArchivableFilesFinderTest.php
index 536f2128c..bc74be1e9 100644
--- a/tests/Composer/Test/Package/Archiver/ArchivableFilesFinderTest.php
+++ b/tests/Composer/Test/Package/Archiver/ArchivableFilesFinderTest.php
@@ -46,6 +46,24 @@ class ArchivableFilesFinderTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
             'B/sub/prefixD.foo',
             'B/sub/prefixE.foo',
             'B/sub/prefixF.foo',
+            'C/prefixA.foo',
+            'C/prefixB.foo',
+            'C/prefixC.foo',
+            'C/prefixD.foo',
+            'C/prefixE.foo',
+            'C/prefixF.foo',
+            'D/prefixA',
+            'D/prefixB',
+            'D/prefixC',
+            'D/prefixD',
+            'D/prefixE',
+            'D/prefixF',
+            'E/subtestA.foo',
+            'F/subtestA.foo',
+            'G/subtestA.foo',
+            'H/subtestA.foo',
+            'I/J/subtestA.foo',
+            'K/dirJ/subtestA.foo',
             'toplevelA.foo',
             'toplevelB.foo',
             'prefixA.foo',
@@ -54,6 +72,10 @@ class ArchivableFilesFinderTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
             'prefixD.foo',
             'prefixE.foo',
             'prefixF.foo',
+            'parameters.yml',
+            'parameters.yml.dist',
+            '!important!.txt',
+            '!important_too!.txt'
         );
 
         foreach ($fileTree as $relativePath) {
@@ -82,6 +104,8 @@ class ArchivableFilesFinderTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         $this->finder = new ArchivableFilesFinder($this->sources, $excludes);
 
         $this->assertArchivableFiles(array(
+            '/!important!.txt',
+            '/!important_too!.txt',
             '/A/prefixA.foo',
             '/A/prefixD.foo',
             '/A/prefixE.foo',
@@ -91,6 +115,24 @@ class ArchivableFilesFinderTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
             '/B/sub/prefixD.foo',
             '/B/sub/prefixE.foo',
             '/B/sub/prefixF.foo',
+            '/C/prefixA.foo',
+            '/C/prefixD.foo',
+            '/C/prefixE.foo',
+            '/C/prefixF.foo',
+            '/D/prefixA',
+            '/D/prefixB',
+            '/D/prefixC',
+            '/D/prefixD',
+            '/D/prefixE',
+            '/D/prefixF',
+            '/E/subtestA.foo',
+            '/F/subtestA.foo',
+            '/G/subtestA.foo',
+            '/H/subtestA.foo',
+            '/I/J/subtestA.foo',
+            '/K/dirJ/subtestA.foo',
+            '/parameters.yml',
+            '/parameters.yml.dist',
             '/prefixB.foo',
             '/prefixD.foo',
             '/prefixE.foo',
@@ -120,6 +162,15 @@ class ArchivableFilesFinderTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
             '!/*/*/prefixF.foo',
             '',
             'refixD.foo',
+            '/C',
+            'D/prefixA',
+            'E',
+            'F/',
+            'G/*',
+            'H/**',
+            'J/',
+            'parameters.yml',
+            '\!important!.txt'
         )));
 
         // git does not currently support negative git attributes
@@ -160,9 +211,15 @@ class ArchivableFilesFinderTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
             '# comments',
             '',
             '^prefixD.foo',
+            'D/prefixA',
+            'parameters.yml',
+            '\!important!.txt',
+            'E',
+            'F/',
             'syntax: glob',
             'prefixF.*',
             'B/*',
+            'H/**',
         )));
 
         $this->finder = new ArchivableFilesFinder($this->sources, array());
@@ -173,7 +230,9 @@ class ArchivableFilesFinderTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
             'hg archive archive.zip'
         );
 
-        array_shift($expectedFiles); // remove .hg_archival.txt
+        // Remove .hg_archival.txt from the expectedFiles
+        $archiveKey = array_search('/.hg_archival.txt', $expectedFiles);
+        array_splice($expectedFiles, $archiveKey, 1);
 
         $this->assertArchivableFiles($expectedFiles);
     }
diff --git a/tests/Composer/Test/Package/Archiver/GitExcludeFilterTest.php b/tests/Composer/Test/Package/Archiver/GitExcludeFilterTest.php
index a6d473a1e..97c02c8e6 100644
--- a/tests/Composer/Test/Package/Archiver/GitExcludeFilterTest.php
+++ b/tests/Composer/Test/Package/Archiver/GitExcludeFilterTest.php
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ class GitExcludeFilterTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
     public function patterns()
     {
         return array(
-            array('app/config/parameters.yml', array('#(?=[^\.])app/(?=[^\.])config/(?=[^\.])parameters\.yml$#', false, false)),
-            array('!app/config/parameters.yml', array('#(?=[^\.])app/(?=[^\.])config/(?=[^\.])parameters\.yml$#', true, false)),
+            array('app/config/parameters.yml', array('#(?=[^\.])app/(?=[^\.])config/(?=[^\.])parameters\.yml(?=$|/)#', false, false)),
+            array('!app/config/parameters.yml', array('#(?=[^\.])app/(?=[^\.])config/(?=[^\.])parameters\.yml(?=$|/)#', true, false)),
         );
     }
 }