Rewrite README.md sentence by sentence for a newcomer

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.

Where the old text and the repository disagreed, the new text states
what the code does. #140 lists
every such point. Among them: `@latest` installs the newest tagged
release, ten million files in both "Rationale" and "Design", no Windows
excludes, a relative operand is joined to the working directory as `pwd`
prints it, and an operand reached through a symlinked directory below
another operand is dropped (#144).

Dropped from "Constraints": the permission to add `github.com/spf13/viper`
if configuration-file support is ever needed.

Model: fable-5-1
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@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ import (
const treesOpenLine = "[1/4] open: opening the database, elapsed 0s, " +
"remain unknown"
// smokeTreeRecs mirrors the README smoke-test tree layout: /d/t1 and
// /d/t2 are identical, /d/t3 differs from them only by one filename.
// Each file takes one 4 KiB block on disk.
// smokeTreeRecs mirrors the tree of the test under README "Definition
// of done": /d/t1 and /d/t2 are identical, /d/t3 differs from them only
// by one filename. Each file takes one 4 KiB block on disk.
func smokeTreeRecs() []scanRec {
f1Head, f1Tail, f1Content := testHash("f1h"), testHash("f1t"), testHash("f1c")
f2Head, f2Tail, f2Content := testHash("f2h"), testHash("f2t"), testHash("f2c")