Preserve the local cache across startup and sync failures - #203
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Summary
Why
Terminalist currently deletes its cache during ordinary startup. That makes startup depend on a successful Todoist request, leaves the UI without useful data when the network is unavailable, and can invalidate a database file that another running process still has open.
The cache is now durable. Remote data is fetched before beginning a database transaction, and the backend-specific snapshot is replaced within that transaction. A failed write rolls back to the last usable cache; a failed remote sync leaves the cached view intact.
User impact
Users see their cached task data immediately at startup and can still inspect it if Todoist is temporarily unavailable. Successful syncs continue to refresh the cache authoritatively.
Validation
cargo fmt --all -- --checkcargo test(59 unit/integration tests and 2 doc tests passed)