Document /app/manifest.json

This is a nice bit of reproducibility that we shouldn't leave
undocumented.
tingping/wmclass
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After this you will end up with a build of the application in <arg choice="plain">DIRECTORY</arg>, which you can
export to a repository with the <command>flatpak build-export</command> command.
export to a repository with the <command>flatpak build-export</command> command. If you use the <option>--repo</option>
option, flatpack-builder will do the export for you at the end of the build process. When flatpak-builder does the
export, it also stores the manifest that was used for the build in /app/manifest.json. The manifest is 'resolved',
i.e. git branch names are replaced by the actual commit IDs that were used in the build.
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<para>
At each of the above steps flatpak caches the result, and if you build the same file again, it will start