gui-video-clipper/chat-summaries/2026-09-22_12-48-v0.1-release-polish-summary.md

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