## CHANGES
- Add sync package import for concurrency safety
- Implement lazy initialization for merge patterns using sync.Once
- Wrap merge patterns in getMergePatterns function
- Replace direct mergePatterns access with function call
- Ensure thread-safe pattern compilation on first use
## CHANGES
- Simplify warning message for invalid commit timestamps
- Remove parenthetical explanation about git history rewrites
- Make error message more concise and readable
## CHANGES
- Replace generic warning with detailed error message
- Add step-by-step manual intervention instructions
- Provide multiple recovery options for users
- Separate git and filesystem error reporting
- Include specific commands for manual cleanup
## CHANGES
- Expand version pattern regex documentation with examples
- Add matching and non-matching commit message examples
- Clarify version pattern behavior with optional prefix
- Update PR commit field comments for clarity
- Document email field availability from GitHub API
- Simplify timestamp and parents field descriptions
### CHANGES
- Rename `changelogDate` to `versionDate` for clarity
- Enhance error message for git index removal failure
- Add comments for `versionPattern` regex in `walker.go`
## CHANGES
- Add date string to RFC3339 parsing error messages
- Enhance isMergeCommit function documentation with detailed explanation
- Document calculateVersionDate function with comprehensive behavior description
- Improve error context for date parsing failures
- Add implementation details for merge commit detection methods
- Clarify fallback behavior in version date calculation
## CHANGES
- Enhance warning message with additional context details
- Add guidance for users when version check fails
- Improve error handling feedback in sync operation
- Provide actionable steps for troubleshooting sync issues
## CHANGES
- Add Email field to PRCommit struct for author information
- Extract version date calculation into reusable helper function
- Redirect error messages from stdout to stderr properly
- Populate commit email from GitHub API responses correctly
- Add comprehensive test coverage for email field handling
- Remove duplicate version date calculation code blocks
- Import os package for proper stderr output handling
## CHANGES
- Add debug logging for date parsing failures
- Pass forcePRSync parameter explicitly to fetchPRs method
- Implement comprehensive merge commit detection using parents
- Capture actual commit timestamps from GitHub API
- Calculate version dates from most recent commit
- Add parent commit SHAs for merge detection
- Use real commit dates instead of current time
- Add timestamp validation with fallback handling
## CHANGES
- Add database sync command with comprehensive validation
- Implement version and commit existence checking methods
- Enhance time parsing with RFC3339Nano fallback support
- Cache fetched PRs during changelog entry creation
- Remove individual incoming files using git operations
- Add sync-db flag for database integrity validation
- Improve commit-PR mapping verification process
- Exclude incoming directory from workflow trigger paths
## CHANGES
- Rename ProcessIncomingPRs method to CreateNewChangelogEntry
- Update method comment to reflect new name
- Update main.go to call renamed method
- Reduce newline spacing in content formatting
## CHANGES
- Pass version parameter to changelog generation workflow
- Update ProcessIncomingPRs method to accept version string
- Add commit SHA tracking to prevent duplicate entries
- Modify process-prs flag to require version parameter
- Improve changelog formatting with proper spacing
- Update configuration to use ProcessPRsVersion string field
- Enhance direct commit filtering with SHA exclusion
- Update documentation to reflect version parameter requirement
## CHANGES
- Extract PR numbers from processed changelog files
- Pass processed PRs map to direct commits function
- Filter out commits already included via PR files
- Reduce extra newlines in changelog version insertion
- Add strconv import for PR number parsing
- Prevent duplicate entries between PRs and direct commits
- Improve changelog formatting consistency
## CHANGES
- Change `NoPush` config field to `Push` boolean
- Update CLI flag from `--no-push` to `--push`
- Add GitHub token authentication for push operations
- Import `os` and HTTP transport packages
- Reverse push logic to require explicit enable
- Update documentation for new push behavior
- Add automatic GitHub repository detection for auth
## CHANGES
- Add .claude/ directory to gitignore exclusions
- Update comment clarity for SilenceUsage flag
- Remove redundant error handling in main function
- Simplify command execution without explicit error checking
- Add SilenceUsage to prevent help output on errors
- Add GetStatusDetails method to show which files are dirty
- Include direct commits in ProcessIncomingPRs for complete AI summaries
## CHANGES
- Add incoming PR preprocessing with validation
- Implement release aggregation for incoming files
- Create git operations for staging changes
- Add comprehensive test coverage for processing
- Extend GitHub client with validation methods
- Support version detection from nix files
- Include documentation for automated workflow
- Add command flags for PR processing
