Fix pathIsHidden treating base directory as hidden, print banner to stdout

- pathIsHidden(".") was returning true, causing freshen to skip entire
  directory tree when dotfiles excluded
- Banner now prints directly to stdout to avoid log prefix artifacts

internal/cli/entry_test.go

@@ -173,10 +173,10 @@ func TestBannerOutput(t *testing.T) {
 	exitCode := RunWithOptions(opts)
 	assert.Equal(t, 0, exitCode)
 
-	// Banner ASCII art should be in stderr (via log.Info)
+	// Banner ASCII art should be in stdout
-	stderr := opts.Stderr.(*bytes.Buffer).String()
+	stdout := opts.Stdout.(*bytes.Buffer).String()
-	assert.Contains(t, stderr, "___")
+	assert.Contains(t, stdout, "___")
-	assert.Contains(t, stderr, "\\")
+	assert.Contains(t, stdout, "\\")
 }
 
 func TestUnknownCommand(t *testing.T) {

internal/cli/freshen.go

@@ -372,12 +372,11 @@ func addExistingToBuilder(b *mfer.Builder, entry *mfer.MFFilePath) {
 
 // pathIsHidden checks if a path contains hidden components
 func pathIsHidden(p string) bool {
-	for _, part := range filepath.SplitList(p) {
+	// "." is not hidden, it's the current directory
-		if len(part) > 0 && part[0] == '.' {
+	if p == "." {
-			return true
+		return false
-		}
 	}
-	// Also check each path component
+	// Check each path component
 	for p != "" && p != "." && p != "/" {
 		base := filepath.Base(p)
 		if len(base) > 0 && base[0] == '.' {

internal/cli/mfer.go

@@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ const banner = `
     \__\/         \__\/       \__\/         \__\/`
 
 func (mfa *CLIApp) printBanner() {
-	log.Info(banner)
+	if log.GetLevel() <= log.InfoLevel {
+		_, _ = fmt.Fprintln(mfa.Stdout, banner)
+	}
 }
 
 // VersionString returns the version and git revision formatted for display.