meld/_dev/notes/dev/MIGRATION_SUMMARY.md

Meld: A template language for LLM prompts

Files successfully migrated:
## Root files
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/CLAUDE.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/EMBED-TRANSFORMATION-FIX.md

## _meld directory
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/FIXMYTESTS.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/FIXMYTESTS.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/analysis-answer.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/analysis.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/analysis.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/analysis.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/arch.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/arch.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/debug-tool-context.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/debug-tool-context.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/debug-tool-context.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/fundamentals.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/paths.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/paths.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/phase1-context.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/phase1-context.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/phase1-context.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/plan.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/plan.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/repomix.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/repomix.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/repomix.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/sdk.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/sdk.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/sdk.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/summarize-tests.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/syntaxupdate.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/syntaxupdate.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/test.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/test.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/test.meld.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/testprompt.md

## _meld/partials directory
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/partials/meld-architect.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/partials/meld-pm.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/_meld/partials/state-issues.md

## _meld/archive directory
-       20 files migrated

## _meld/audit directory
-        7 files migrated

## dev directory
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/APICLI.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/API_INTEGRATION_FIX_STEPS.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/API_INTEGRATION_TESTS.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/API_REFINEMENT_SUMMARY.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/CLEAN.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/CLI.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/DEBUG-README.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/FALLBACKS.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/FIXPARSE.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/FIXPATHS.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/FIXPATHSPARSE.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/IMPROVMT.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/ISSUE-TEMPLATE.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/LLMXML-IMPROVEMENTS.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/LLMXML-TESTCASE.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/MISMATCHES.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/NOTES-TASKS.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/NOTES.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/PATH-FIXES-SUMMARY.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/PLAN-REGEX.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/README.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/REGEX.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/SHIP.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/SKIPTESTS.md
- /Users/adam/dev/claude-meld/dev/TODO.md

## dev/old directory
-       30 files migrated

## Changes to prepare-main.js
Updated IGNORED_PATTERNS array to include:
```javascript
  // Meld document files that should be kept in dev branches but removed from main
  '_meld/**/*.md',
  '_meld/**/*.meld',
  '_meld/**/*.meld.md',
  '**/*.meld',
  // Preserve documentation in docs/ and userdocs/ folders
  'dev/**/*.md',
  'dev/**/*.meld',
  'dev/**/*.meld.md',
  'tmp/**/*.md',
  'tmp/**/*.meld',
  'tmp/**/*.meld.md'
```

## Next steps
- Update branch management to follow the "dev" branch strategy outlined in claude-meld/dev/README.md
- Test the prepare-main.js script to confirm it properly cleans up the repository when creating the main branch
- Ensure all development is done on feature branches created from the dev branch
- Make sure developers understand they *should* commit .meld and .md files to the dev branch, not avoid them