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Warn from-source builders that syncthing auto-upgrades #882

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Expand Up @@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ Building Syncthing
of it. For all other purposes we recommend using the official binary
releases instead.

If you still prefer to build Syncthing from source for your own use, be
aware that there is an built-in automatic upgrade mechanism that will
overwrite your built binary with a downloaded version. To avoid this, you
can use the --no-upgrade build flag (see below), but you will be
responsible for your own upgrades.

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