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docs: split the configuration reference out of the deployment guide - #2192

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Follows #2191. Splits the property reference out of doc/deployment.md into doc/configuration.md.

Why

The reference was about 1150 of the guide's 1300 lines, so the guide itself - getting started, the
web UI, the upstream registry, HTTPS - sat buried inside it. The two also serve different readers:
the guide is followed once while setting a deployment up, the reference is looked things up in
afterwards.

It also gives the planned CI check a file to own. The check compares the properties the code binds
against the ones documented, and doc/configuration.md is now unambiguously the file every property
has to appear in, while the guide stays prose.

Content-preserving

Every property row and every line of prose is carried across untouched. Verified rather than
asserted:

  • All 143 ovsx.* mentions are identical before and after, by diff.
  • Diffing every non-heading, non-blank line of the old file against both new files together leaves
    only the three cross-document link rewrites and the new intro and pointer lines.

The reference's sections move up a heading level (### to ##) now that they are no longer nested
under ## Open VSX Configuration Properties. GitHub derives anchors from the heading text and not
its level, so this changes no anchor.

Three links now cross a document boundary and were rewritten:

link from to
#oauth2 deployment.md configuration.md#oauth2
#upstream-registry deployment.md configuration.md#upstream-registry
#upstream-registry-instance configuration.md deployment.md#upstream-registry-instance

All four anchors in play were checked to resolve to exactly one heading in the right file, including
deployment.md#configuring-applicationyml, which is the one the wiki overview points at and which
stays put.

doc/deployment.md keeps a short ## Configuration Properties section where the reference used to
be, linking to the new document, so the reading order still works. README.md names both documents.

Prepared with Claude Code.

The property reference was about 1150 of the deployment guide's 1300 lines, so
the guide itself - getting started, the web UI, the upstream registry, HTTPS -
was buried inside it, and the two serve different readers: one is followed once
while setting a deployment up, the other is looked things up in afterwards.

Content-preserving. Every property row and every line of prose is carried over
untouched; the only rewrites are the three links that now cross a document
boundary, and the sections of the reference move up a heading level now that
they are no longer nested under one. Anchors derive from the heading text rather
than its level, so every existing link still resolves, which was checked for all
four - #oauth2, #upstream-registry, #upstream-registry-instance and
#configuring-applicationyml, the last of these being the one the wiki overview
points at.

This also gives the planned CI check a file to own: the reference is where every
property has to appear, while the guide stays prose.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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