I personally have never used include/excludes, but I remember reading the man page a few years ago, and though it was very well written, I've never had a scenario where they were appropriate. From your specification, I don't think you do either. Simplify.
the main use i've found for them is if you have tons and tons of directories, but similarly named files in those directories that need syncing. for instance i've got a web site with thousands of product directories, and there might be a file named "review.html" in all those directories. in that case i run the following include/exclude file:
+ / + review*.html - *.html - *.php
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