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+# v0.1.0 Release Polish — Summary
+
+## Task Description
+
+Prepared GUI Video Clipper for its initial `v0.1.0` tagged release. This was a polish/branding/release-prep pass — no new features, purely metadata, versioning infrastructure, an About dialog, licensing, README, and pushing to the remote repository with a clean git history.
+
+## Changes Made
+
+### Versioning Infrastructure (Task 1)
+- Created `VERSION` file at project root (single source of truth: `0.1.0`)
+- Created `scripts/bump-version.sh` that syncs VERSION → `package.json`, `Cargo.toml`, `tauri.conf.json`, and `Cargo.lock`
+- Script handles leading `v`/`V`, trailing whitespace, and validates semver format
+
+### Metadata Cleanup (Task 2)
+- Replaced all placeholder/template values across the codebase:
+  - `productName`: "Video Clipper" → "GUI Video Clipper"
+  - `identifier`: "com.erikfredericks.tauri-app" → "xyz.cottongin.gui-video-clipper"
+  - `Cargo.toml` name/description/authors/lib.name
+  - `main.rs` crate reference: `tauri_app_lib` → `gui_video_clipper_lib`
+  - `index.html` title and SetupWizard body text
+
+### Path Scrubbing (Task 3)
+- Replaced 6 absolute paths containing personal username in 3 plan doc files with relative equivalents
+
+### LICENSE (Task 4)
+- Added MIT license file (copyright 2026 cottongin)
+
+### README (Task 5)
+- Full rewrite replacing stock Tauri template: features list, prerequisites, build instructions, architecture overview, contributing guide, license
+
+### About Dialog (Task 6)
+- New `AboutDialog.svelte` component showing app icon, title, version (via `getVersion()`), author, license, repo link
+- Three triggers: toolbar ℹ button, ⌘/ shortcut, clickable version label in status bar
+- Wired into `App.svelte` and `StatusBar.svelte`
+
+### Git History Scrub & Release (Tasks 7-8)
+- Committed all untracked spec/plan docs
+- Ran `git-filter-repo --replace-text` in two passes:
+  1. Path/identifier replacements (com.erikfredericks.tauri-app → xyz.cottongin.gui-video-clipper, absolute paths → empty)
+  2. Bare username replacement (erikfredericks → REDACTED_USERNAME)
+- Final verification: 0 matches for "erikfredericks" across all 49 commits
+- Added remote: `git@code.cottongin.xyz:cottongin/gui-video-clipper.git`
+- Tagged `v0.1.0` and pushed to `origin/master`
+
+## Lessons Learned
+
+- `git-filter-repo --replace-text` is clean and fast but needs multiple passes when replacements include the target string as documentation (meta-references in spec/plan docs survive the first pass)
+- The branch was `master` (from initial scaffold), not `main` — plan assumed `main`
+- `npm pkg set version=X --json` emits a JSON parse error on some npm versions before the fallback succeeds — harmless but noisy
+- Pre-existing `vite.config.ts` type errors cause `npm run check` to exit non-zero; unrelated to this work
+
+## Follow-Up Items
+
+- Fix pre-existing `vite.config.ts` type errors so `npm run check` passes clean
+- Consider renaming `master` → `main` if preferred
+- Future: CI/CD pipeline, `.dmg` packaging, changelog generation