PUBLIC_RELEASE_HYGIENE.md

Pulse — Public Release Hygiene

This is the small cleanup that makes the public GitHub repo look intentional.

0) Decide where this will live

• Personal: astra-ventures/pulse (fast)
• Org: astra-ventures/pulse (cleaner branding)

1) Fix git author identity (recommended before pushing public)

Right now, recent commits may show as Iris <iris@iMac.local>.

Set these once:

git config --global user.name "Josh"
git config --global user.email "<your-email>"

2) Rewrite recent commits to use the new author

From pulse/:

# Rewrites the last N commits to use the current global author
# Adjust N if needed.
N=10
for i in $(seq 1 $N); do
  git commit --amend --no-edit --reset-author || break
  # If there are more commits to rewrite, move back one and continue
  git rebase --onto HEAD~1 HEAD~1 --root >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
  break
done

Simpler / safer approach (manual):

git log --oneline --max-count=20
# then for the last few commits:
#   git commit --amend --no-edit --reset-author

3) Create + push the public repo

See RELEASE_RUNBOOK.md.

4) After push

• Verify README renders
• Verify links in CLAWHUB_LISTING.md

Notes

• If you already pushed the repo publicly, author rewrite becomes force-push territory; do it only if you care.