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README: Change recommendation for file-nullbyte to only search text files#15

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@kbabioch kbabioch commented Apr 30, 2020

This updates the recommended / suggested configuration file presented in
the README.md file, so that file-nullbyte is only searching text
files by default (FILE_NULLBYTE_TEXT=0).

Searching binary files for null bytes (NUL) makes not too much sense,
since it will regularly find such files, and it is perfectly fine for
them to contain these bytes.

This addresses one aspect of an issue with searching binary files with
this particular file check (documented in #14).

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This updates the recommended / suggested configuration file presented in
the `README.md` file, so that `file-nullbyte` is only searching text
files by default (`FILE_NULLBYTE_TEXT=0).

Searching binary files for null bytes (`NUL`) makes not too much sense,
since it will regularly find such files, and it is perfectly fine for
them to contain these bytes.

This addresses one aspect of an issue with searching binary files with
this particular file check (documented in cytopia#14).
@kbabioch kbabioch changed the title README: Update recommendation for file-nullbyte to only search text files README: Change recommendation for file-nullbyte to only search text files Apr 30, 2020
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Makes sense 👍

@cytopia cytopia merged commit 6ae3c1e into cytopia:master Apr 30, 2020
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