Merge pull request #25300 from robert-smith-911

* pr/25300:
  Polish "Document precedence between properties and yaml"
  Document precedence between properties and yaml

Closes gh-25300

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/spring-boot-features.adoc

@@ -522,6 +522,9 @@ Config data files are considered in the following order:
 . <<boot-features-external-config-files,Application properties>> outside of your packaged jar (`application.properties` and YAML variants).
 . <<boot-features-external-config-files-profile-specific,Profile-specific application properties>> outside of your packaged jar (`application-\{profile}.properties` and YAML variants).
 
+NOTE: It is recommended to stick with one format for your entire application.
+If you have configuration files with both `.properties` and `.yml` format in the same location, `.properties` takes precedence.
+
 To provide a concrete example, suppose you develop a `@Component` that uses a `name` property, as shown in the following example:
 
 [source,java,indent=0]