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docs: add note about --check-first being useful with --order-by

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@ -464,6 +464,9 @@ transfers as soon as possible.
This flag can be useful on IO limited systems where transfers
interfere with checking.
It can also be useful to ensure perfect ordering when using
`--order-by`.
Using this flag can use more memory as it effectively sets
`--max-backlog` to infinite. This means that all the info on the
objects to transfer is held in memory before the transfers start.
@ -1071,6 +1074,10 @@ Rclone will do its best to transfer the best file it has so in
practice this should not cause a problem. Think of `--order-by` as
being more of a best efforts flag rather than a perfect ordering.
If you want perfect ordering then you will need to specify
[--check-first](#check-first) which will find all the files which need
transferring first before transferring any.
### --password-command SpaceSepList ###
This flag supplies a program which should supply the config password