[1.8.x] Fixed #25100 -- Documented an upgrade caveat for contenttypes migration.

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has been removed by a migration and replaced by a property. That means it's
not possible to query or filter a ``ContentType`` by this field any longer.
Be careful if you upgrade to Django 1.8 and skip Django 1.7. If you run
``manage.py migrate --fake``, this migration will be skipped and you'll see
a ``RuntimeError: Error creating new content types.`` exception because the
``name`` column won't be dropped from the database. Use ``migrate.py migrate
--fake-initial`` to fake only the initial migration instead.
* :djadmin:`migrate` now accepts the :djadminopt:`--fake-initial` option to
allow faking initial migrations. In 1.7 initial migrations were always
automatically faked if all tables created in an initial migration already