docs: callout the one-time gotcha when adopting PreservePaths#7
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A consumer hit it: switched their CLI from a pre-PreservePaths build to one configured with PreservePaths, expected the user's appsettings.Development.json to survive the upgrade, lost it. The cause is generic to self-updaters: the *first* upgrade onto the new version is performed by the *old* binary's update code, which doesn't know about PreservePaths and moves everything into .old/. From the next update onwards, preservation works as documented. Adds a short blockquote callout in the "Preserving user files" README section spelling this out, plus a hint to either ask users to back up state once or have the CLI bootstrap missing files on first launch after the upgrade. Docs-only — no version bump, no behaviour change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Adds a short blockquote callout in the "Preserving user files across updates" README section, spelling out the chicken-and-egg gotcha when a consumer first turns on
PreservePaths:Suggests two practical mitigations: ask users to back up state once before the upgrade, or have the CLI bootstrap missing files on first launch after the upgrade.
Docs-only — no version bump, no behaviour change.
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