Make find more cross‐compatible

[Shushe] / README.markdown

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@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ In every case, you may supply your own implementation by overriding the
 - `echo`
 - `file`
 - `find`
+- `git` (optional; set `GIT=` to disable)
 - `mkdir` (requires support for `-p`)
 - `mv`
 - `od` (requires support for `-t x1`)
@@ -159,9 +160,9 @@ The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour
 
 - **`FINDRULES`:**
   Rules to use with `find` when searching for source files.
-  The default ignores hidden files, those that start with a period or
-    hyphen‐minus, and those which contain a pipe, buck, percent, or
-    colon.
+  The default ignores files that start with a period or hyphen‐minus
+    and those which contain a hash, buck, percent, asterisk, colon,
+    semi, eroteme, bracket, or pipe.
 
 - **`FINDINCLUDERULES`:**
   Rules to use with `find` when searching for includes (default:
@@ -207,10 +208,11 @@ Text formats with associated X·S·L·T parsers are wrapped in a H·T·M·L
 Source files whose media type does not have an associated X·S·L·T
   parser are considered “assets” and will not be transformed.
 
-**☡ For compatibility with this program, source filenames must not
-  contain Ascii whitespace, colons (`:`), pipes (`|`), bucks (`$`),
-  percents (`%`) or control characters, and must not begin with a
-  hyphen‐minus (`-`).**
+**☡ For compatibility with this program, source file·names must not
+  contain Ascii white·space, colons (`:`), semis (`;`), pipes (`|`),
+  bucks (`$`), percents (`%`), hashes (`#`), asterisks (`*`), brackets
+  (`[` or `]`), erotemes (`?`), or control characters, and must not
+  begin with a hyphen‐minus (`-`).**
 The former characters have the potential to conflict with make syntax,
   and a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a command‐line argument.
 
@@ -374,10 +376,32 @@ The following are recommendations on effective creation of
 - Set `@exclude-result-prefixes` on the root `xslt:transform` element
     to reduce the number of declared namespaces in the final result.
 
-The params `$buildtime`, `$srctime`, and `$path` are available within
-  transforms and are initialized to the current time, the time that the
-  source file was last modified, and the path of the output file within
-  $(DESTDIR).
+## Global Params
+
+The following params are made available globally in parsers and
+  transforms :⁠—
+
+- **`BUILDTIME`:**
+  The current time.
+
+- **`SRCREV`:**
+  The tag or hash of the current commit in the working directory (if
+    `GIT` is defined and `./.git` exists).
+
+- **`SRCTIME`:**
+  The time at which the source file was last modified.
+
+- **`VERSION`:**
+  The tag or hash of the current commit in `THISDIR` (if `GIT` is
+    defined and `$(THISDIR)/.git` exists).
+
+The following params are only available in transforms :⁠—
+
+- **`CATALOG`:**
+  The path of the catalog file (within `BUILDDIR`).
+
+- **`PATH`:**
+  The path of the output file (within `DESTDIR`).
 
 ## Output Wrapping