From: Lady <redacted>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 06:04:33 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Update FINDRULES documentation
X-Git-Tag: 0.3.1^0
X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Shushe/commitdiff_plain/56637a1e803cab7a53a1259d1fa4b84513a1c5b1?hp=0497d2be04ca445982491ebf77437779416ec7b2

Update FINDRULES documentation

This comment is out‐of‐date (since the removal of `FINDOPTS`), and the
readme prose misses that percents are also problematic and not matched
by default.
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diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index 76cebd4..2de20b2 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -146,9 +146,8 @@ MAGICDIR := $(patsubst ./%,%,$(THISDIR)/magic)
 
 # Configuration of `find´.
 #
-# By default, `find´ will not follow symlinks and will use extended
-# regular expressions, ignoring hidden files and those which begin with
-# a period.
+# By default, `find´ will ignore hidden files, those which begin with a
+# period, and those which are likely to cause problems for `make´.
 FINDRULES := -flags -nohidden -and ! '(' '(' -name '[.-]*' -or -name '*[:|$$%]*' ')' -and -prune ')'
 FINDINCLUDERULES := $(FINDRULES)
 
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index de82209..4c1f1d6 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ 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, or colon.
+    hyphen‐minus, and those which contain a pipe, buck, percent, or
+    colon.
 
 - **`FINDINCLUDERULES`:**
   Rules to use with `find` when searching for includes (default: