From 72df3397866eaeb8775cb240169dd863c3609cea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Ridgwell <273118822+dnyw4l3n13@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2026 00:18:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix: replace raw echo with output helpers in
 git/mkmissing-release

Replace all four bare echo calls with die/info/success helpers as defined
by the shell-script output helper conventions.

Prompt: Replace raw echo with output helpers in git/mkmissing-release (issue #647)

Closes #647
---
 git/mkmissing-release | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git/mkmissing-release b/git/mkmissing-release
index a67e7988..30ffbfeb 100755
--- a/git/mkmissing-release
+++ b/git/mkmissing-release
@@ -1,15 +1,28 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
+die() {
+    printf '\n\033[31m✗\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+success() {
+    printf '\n\033[32m✓\033[0m %s\n' "$*"
+}
+
+info() {
+    printf '\n\033[32m→\033[0m %s\n' "$*"
+}
+
 BASEDIR="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
-echo "Script Dir: $BASEDIR"
+info "Script Dir: $BASEDIR"
 
 find "$(pwd)"/* -name '*.git' -print | sed "s|/.git$||" | sort -u | grep -v .cache | while IFS= read -r line
 do
-  echo "$line"
+  info "$line"
   CURRENT_DIR=$line
 
-  echo "==== $CURRENT_DIR ==="
+  info "==== $CURRENT_DIR ==="
   cd "$CURRENT_DIR" && "$BASEDIR/missing-release-branches"
 
-  echo " * done"
+  success " * done"
 done

From f144a1d2c9e07f6c4b649d7a202fb4b19ed2b100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Ridgwell <273118822+dnyw4l3n13@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2026 00:18:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] chore: update changelog for
 fix/647-mkmissing-release-echo-helpers

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6d90ff1f..fe8da2e8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Please ADD ALL Changes to the UNRELEASED SECTION and not a specific release
 - Replace raw echo with standard output helpers in git/update-dotnet-sdk
 - Replace raw echo with standard output helpers in git/switchtomain
 - Replace raw echo with output helpers in git/optimise-git
+- Replace raw echo with output helpers in git/mkmissing-release
 ### Changed
 - Replace raw echo with standard output helpers (die/info/success) in github/cancel-workflows
 - Replace raw echo with standard output helpers (die/info/success) in git/update-repos-personal