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docs: --format is required for some expensive-to-compute values

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borg list by default does not compute expensive values except when
they are needed. whether they are needed is determined by the format,
in standard mode as well as in --json mode.
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Archive comment, if any
Some keys/values are more expensive to compute than others (e.g. because it requires opening the archive,
not just the manifest). To optimize for speed, `borg list repo` does not determine these values except
when they are requested. The `--format` option is used for that (for normal mode as well as for `--json`
mode), so, to have the comment included in the json output, you will need:
::
borg list repo --format "{name}{comment}" --json`
Example of a simple archive listing (``borg list --last 1 --json``)::
{