bart - how to ignore subdirecties

how do you code a rules file to ignore subdirectories and individual files?
I think the following fits the man page description but as you can see the manifest files are the same size:

bart create -r - | wc
/var
CHECK all
IGNORE contents
   38288  331864 4745757  <--- output of wc

bart create -r - | wc
/var
CHECK all
IGNORE contents

/var/tmp
IGNORE all

   38288  331864 4745757  <-- output of wc and matches above


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