Rewrite README.md sentence by sentence for a newcomer
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Rewrites `README.md` from scratch for
#135. Every statement was checked
against the code on `next` and against what the built binary prints on
small trees under `/var/tmp`. The headings that the code comments cite
are kept. Five `main_test.go` comments cite "Settings", two cite what
"Error handling" says about a failed write to stdout, and one comment
each in `scan_test.go`, `trees_test.go` and `exclude_test.go` cites what
the README now says.

Where the old text and the repository disagreed, the new text states
what the code does: `@latest` installs the newest tagged release, ten
million files in both "Rationale" and "Design", no Windows excludes, and
an operand reached through a symlinked directory below another operand
is dropped (#144).

Model: fable-5-1
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@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ import (
func TestDefaultExcludes(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
// README "Rules for the walk": each system's list.
// README "Rules for the walk": the Linux and macOS lists, and none
// on any other system. The Windows list exists in the code only: the
// binary does not build for Windows, so the README leaves it out.
cases := map[string][]string{
goosLinux: {"/proc", "/sys", "/dev", "/run", "/tmp", "/var/tmp"},
goosDarwin: {