docs: improve documentation and CLI messages for new users #691
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Semver Impact of This PR🟢 Patch (bug fixes) 📋 Changelog PreviewThis is how your changes will appear in the changelog. New Features ✨
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- Add craft changelog command documentation to getting-started.md - Add dry-run mode explanation section with blocked vs allowed operations - Document skip-changelog features (#skip-changelog, labels, config) - Add Craft extensions (commit_patterns, semver) to Auto Mode docs - Include link to GitHub's release.yml documentation - Show default conventional commits configuration - Improve GITHUB_TOKEN error message with helpful tip - Update --dry-run help text to be more specific
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Summary
Improves Craft's documentation and CLI output based on new user feedback. The main pain points addressed:
changelogcommand - Users didn't know aboutcraft changelog --since SHAcommit_patternsnot clearly documented as Craft extension - Users didn't know this extends GitHub's release.yml formatChanges
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craft changelogcommand section to getting-started.mdCLI
GITHUB_TOKENerror message with helpful tip aboutgh auth token--dry-runhelp text to be more specific about what's blocked