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WalkthroughExpansion.rs now stages brace variants in a new BraceWords state. It preserves literal glob metacharacters with META_TAG and applies pathname globbing to each variant. Shell tests now assert exact normalized outputs for brace-plus-glob cases and interpolated metacharacters. ChangesBrace + Glob Staged Expansion
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86-138: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider
describe.concurrent/test.concurrentfor these subprocess+fs tests.Each test here spawns a shell subprocess via
$and creates atempDir, but the suite runs sequentially.As per coding guidelines: "Prefer concurrent tests over sequential tests: When multiple tests in the same file spawn processes or write files, make them concurrent with
test.concurrentordescribe.concurrentunless it's very difficult to make them concurrent."♻️ Suggested change
-describe("brace + glob composition", () => { +describe.concurrent("brace + glob composition", () => {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@test/js/bun/shell/brace.test.ts` around lines 86 - 138, The brace + glob suite is still running sequentially even though each case only uses its own tempDir and a shell subprocess via $. Update the outer describe and/or each test in brace.test.ts to use describe.concurrent or test.concurrent so these filesystem/process tests can run in parallel, keeping the existing assertions and helper words unchanged.Source: Coding guidelines
127-138: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAdd a brace-variant test for interpolated
*.brace.test.tscovers interpolated comma handling and a literal*branch, but not interpolated data containing*inside a brace variant. Add a direct case here to lock down theneutralize_glob_metacharspath.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@test/js/bun/shell/brace.test.ts` around lines 127 - 138, The brace handling tests in brace.test.ts should also cover an interpolated wildcard branch: add a new case in the existing brace group tests, alongside the current interpolated comma and literal branch checks, that passes interpolated data containing * through the same shell interpolation path used by $ and verifies it is treated as a literal brace variant rather than a glob. Use the existing test structure and helpers (tempDir, $`echo ...`, words, expect) to keep the new assertion close to the current brace-related coverage and exercise the neutralize_glob_metachars path directly.
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In `@src/runtime/shell/states/Expansion.rs`:
- Around line 335-349: The brace escaping logic in Expansion::escaped handling
is incomplete because ShellCharIter::read_char does not currently treat \{, \},
and \, as escaped brace syntax, so those characters can still be interpreted by
do_brace_expand. Update the escape handling in the expansion path so backslashes
are preserved for brace-related characters and the brace lexer receives them as
literals, using the existing Expansion::escaped loop and
ShellCharIter::read_char as the key locations to adjust.
In `@test/js/bun/shell/brace.test.ts`:
- Around line 120-126: The no-match brace glob test in brace.test.ts only checks
stderr and exitCode, so it can miss regressions where stdout still contains
partial expansion output. Update the existing “a variant with no matches reports
the expanded word” test around the $`echo {d1,nope}/*` call to also capture and
assert that stdout is empty, alongside the current stderr and exitCode checks.
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In `@test/js/bun/shell/brace.test.ts`:
- Around line 86-138: The brace + glob suite is still running sequentially even
though each case only uses its own tempDir and a shell subprocess via $. Update
the outer describe and/or each test in brace.test.ts to use describe.concurrent
or test.concurrent so these filesystem/process tests can run in parallel,
keeping the existing assertions and helper words unchanged.
- Around line 127-138: The brace handling tests in brace.test.ts should also
cover an interpolated wildcard branch: add a new case in the existing brace
group tests, alongside the current interpolated comma and literal branch checks,
that passes interpolated data containing * through the same shell interpolation
path used by $ and verifies it is treated as a literal brace variant rather than
a glob. Use the existing test structure and helpers (tempDir, $`echo ...`,
words, expect) to keep the new assertion close to the current brace-related
coverage and exercise the neutralize_glob_metachars path directly.
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// a[c]1.txt, ac1.txt, b[c]2.txt exist
await $`echo {a,b}${"[c]"}*`; // -> a[c]1.txt b[c]2.txtEach variant is neutralized on its own after brace expansion, so the recovered metacharacter offsets have to land on the template Verification: reverting |
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No issues found, but this reworks the expansion state machine (new BraceWords state, META_TAG byte-encoding to carry literal-* offsets through the brace lexer, and re-entry from the async glob walker) and rewrites existing tests to assert new argv output — worth a human look at the design before merging.
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Overview
Touches src/runtime/shell/states/Expansion.rs (state machine for shell word expansion) and test/js/bun/shell/brace.test.ts. The fix stops {d1,d2}/* from emitting both the literal patterns and their matches: brace variants are now parked in a new brace_words vec and pathname-expanded one at a time via a new BraceWords state. A META_TAG (0x01) byte-tagging scheme carries literal-* offsets through the brace lexer so neutralize_glob_metachars can still tell template * from interpolated * per variant. on_glob_walk_done now transitions back to BraceWords (which falls through to Done when the list is empty, so the plain-glob path is unchanged).
Security risks
None identified. Interpolated metacharacters remain neutralized (verified by the new {a,b}${"[c]"}* and {a,b}${"*"}.txt tests), and the encoding round-trips arbitrary data bytes including 0x01. No new external input surface.
Level of scrutiny
Moderate-to-high. Shell argv construction is on the hot path for every Bun.$ invocation, and this is a user-visible behavior change (the old tests asserted the buggy output and were rewritten). The change adds a state-machine node, a custom byte encoding, and a loop across an async boundary (off-thread glob walk → main-thread re-entry → next variant). I traced the encoder/decoder for the tricky cases (doubled 0x01, META_TAG adjacent to data *, lone trailing tag) and it looks correct, but the design is non-obvious enough that a maintainer should confirm it's the right shape.
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- Both CodeRabbit threads are resolved (one withdrawn as a mis-trace, one applied in ec01242).
- Test coverage is solid: seven cases including per-variant no-match error, literal-only variants, and interpolation staying data.
- PR notes it overlaps with #33262 on the same two files and whichever lands second needs a rebase.
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{a*,nope}semantics (a variant with no metachar never reaches the walker) and per-variant no-match erroring are deliberate choices worth a maintainer nod.
Design points flagged for a maintainerTwo deliberate semantic choices, both worth a nod before merge: 1. A variant with no glob metacharacter is a plain word and never reaches the walker. If 2. A no-match variant errors, per word. This is the rule Bun already applies to a single glob word, now applied to each brace variant:
Bun already errors on CI statusThe red lanes are not this diff. Triage of build 68793:
No shell, brace, or glob failure appears in any annotation, and 135 shards are green. I have not pushed a retrigger: the cookie-map failure is deterministic, so a re-roll would come back the same. This needs the |
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Build 68793 finished, so here is the final tally to close out my earlier note (which was written while it was still running). 269 shards green, 17 red, zero shell/brace/glob failures.
The received value is the correct one and the expectation is stale, including the weekday (1 Jan 1970 was a Thursday). Reproduces on The rest are a No retrigger pushed: the dominant failure is deterministic, so another build returns the same result. This is ready for review on the strength of the diff. |
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This bug was reported again with a different repro. The new report names the same cause, The new repro uses mkdir -p src/a && touch src/x.test.ts src/a/y.test.tsx
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In `@test/js/bun/shell/brace.test.ts`:
- Around line 203-212: Add a brace-plus-double-asterisk glob test near the
existing brace glob cases, using a pattern such as {src,lib}/**/*.ts and nested
fixture files in both variants. Assert the exact sorted output so
decode_brace_word restores each encoded DoubleAsterisk as a recursive glob
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test/js/bun/shell/brace.test.ts:371-377— The comment says "Brace-expand count is 0, so the word skips the tag round-trip", but{x}.*.txthas no Comma atom, sobrace_expansion_hint = has_brace_open && has_brace_close && has_comma(parse.rs:1671) is false and the word goes straight totransition_to_glob_state—do_brace_expandnever runs and count is never computed. The count==0 path is still pinned by the pre-existing{x},*.txttest at line 360, so there's no coverage hole; either add a Comma atom outside the braces so this pattern actually reaches count==0, or reword the comment to say the word takes the direct-glob path becausehas_brace_expansion()is false.Extended reasoning...
What the comment claims vs. what the code does
The test comment (lines 372-376) says:
Brace-expand count is 0, so the word skips the tag round-trip and keeps its original metacharacter offsets.
and the PR's rebase notes say this test "pins the path from this side" — i.e. it is meant to guard the
count == 0merge-conflict resolution insidedo_brace_expand(Expansion.rs:340-354), where the untagged word is handed on with its originalmeta_offsetsinstead of being round-tripped throughdecode_brace_word.But
{x}.*.txtnever reachesdo_brace_expand. The command-argument path builds the atom viaparse_atomat src/shell_parser/parse.rs:1669-1673, which sets:brace_expansion_hint: has_brace_open && has_brace_close && has_comma,
{x}.*.txtproducesBraceBegin,Text("x"),BraceEnd,Text("."),Asterisk,Text(".txt")— noCommaatom — sohas_comma = falseandbrace_expansion_hint = false.Atom::has_brace_expansion()(parse.rs:664-669) therefore returns false. (Atom::mergeat parse.rs:588-643 does set the hint fromBraceBegin/BraceEndalone without a comma, but it is only called from the'var_declassignment-RHS path, not for ordinary command words likeecho {x}.*.txt.)Step-by-step trace for
echo {x}.*.txtparse_atombuilds aCompoundwithbrace_expansion_hint = false(no Comma),glob_hint = true(Asterisk present).Expansion::nextwalks the atoms, populatingcurrent_out = b"{x}.*.txt"andmeta_offsets = [0, 2, 4](BraceBegin, BraceEnd, Asterisk).- After the walk, the check at Expansion.rs:275 (
if atom.has_brace_expansion()) is false, soExpansionState::BraceExpandis skipped entirely. atom.has_glob_expansion()is true, so control goes straight totransition_to_glob_state.do_brace_expandis never called;countis never computed; thecount == 0branch at Expansion.rs:340 is never reached.
For the interpolated half,
{x}.${"*"}.txthas no Comma atom and no Asterisk atom (the interpolated*is a Text atom), so both hints are false and the word takes the plainpush_current_out; Donepath — again never enteringdo_brace_expand.Why this test cannot detect the regression it claims to guard
The rebase notes describe the auto-merge bug: under it, the count==0 word would have gone through
decode_brace_word, come out with no metacharacter offsets, and had its template*neutralized. But that mis-handling lives insidedo_brace_expand. Since{x}.*.txtnever callsdo_brace_expand, this test passes identically on both the fixed build and the auto-merged build — reverting the count==0 resolution does not break it. Per REVIEW.md ("confirm deleting each load-bearing clause of your fix breaks at least one test"), this test does not pin the clause its comment says it pins.The only test that actually reaches the count==0 branch is the pre-existing "a word with a comma-less brace group and a glob keeps its pattern" at lines 360-369, whose pattern
{x},*.txthas a,outside the braces — that comma supplies theCommaatom, sohas_comma = true,has_brace_expansion() = true,do_brace_expandruns, the lexer demotes{x}to text, andcount == 0. So the merge-conflict resolution is guarded — just not by this test.Impact
Nit: no runtime failure, no coverage gap for the load-bearing clause. The defect is a factually-wrong comment (and an unfounded coverage claim in the rebase notes). The test itself asserts valid behavior — a comma-less brace group on the direct-glob path, and interpolated
*staying data on the plain-word path — so it is worth keeping; only the comment is wrong.How to fix
Either:
- Make the test do what the comment says: add a Comma atom outside the braces so the word actually enters
do_brace_expandand hits count==0 — e.g.echo {x}.*.txt,orecho ,{x}.*.txt(mirroring how the existing{x},*.txttest works). Then the comment and the rebase-note claim become true. - Make the comment say what the test does: reword to something like "has_brace_expansion() is false (no comma), so the word goes straight to the glob walker with its original meta_offsets — the tag round-trip never runs." and drop the count==0 framing.
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs; both earlier inline findings (the Windows x.*.txt fixture and the missing ** case) are addressed in 4b20e2b. Because this rewrites the brace/glob expansion state machine and carries a user-facing semantic choice the author already flagged for a maintainer (per-variant no-match errors, zsh-style, vs bash's keep-literal), a human look is still worthwhile.
Checked: the META_TAG encode/decode round-trips data \x01 and interpolated * correctly (doubling + read+1 guard); on_glob_walk_done → BraceWords on the plain-glob path falls through to Done because brace_words is never populated; the count == 0 branch keeps the original meta_offsets rather than round-tripping, so the comma-less-group + glob test on main still passes; the new [c] / , fixture filenames are Windows-legal.
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Overview
Two files: src/runtime/shell/states/Expansion.rs (~120 lines net) and test/js/bun/shell/brace.test.ts. The Rust change replaces the brace+glob composition path: instead of pushing every brace variant to argv and then globbing the original pattern (which produced both literals and matches), it stages variants in a new brace_words list and a BraceWords state globs each one that carries a literal *. A META_TAG (0x01) byte encoding carries literal-vs-interpolated * provenance through the brace expander so neutralize_glob_metachars can be applied per variant. on_glob_walk_done now unconditionally transitions to BraceWords (safe: an empty list yields None → Done).
Security risks
None identified. The change is confined to argv construction inside Bun's shell. The existing safeguard — interpolated metacharacters remain data and cannot broaden a glob — is preserved by the tag encoding and pinned by two new tests ({a,b}${"*"}.txt stays literal; {a,b}${"[c]"}* neutralizes only the interpolated part). No new external-input parsing surface.
Level of scrutiny
Medium-high. This is a control-flow rewrite of a core state machine (ExpansionState) that every shell word passes through, plus a bespoke byte-level encoding. The change is well-tested (8 new/rewritten tests, all fail on main per the author's verification), but it is neither mechanical nor obvious, and it was rebased across six other PRs with one conflict that required a real semantic decision (the count == 0 path).
Other factors
- The author explicitly flagged two design points for a maintainer, the load-bearing one being per-variant no-match behavior:
echo {d1,nope}/*now errors (no matches found: nope/*, zsh-style) instead of keeping the literal (bash-style). The choice is self-consistent with Bun's existing single-word behavior, but it is a user-visible semantic that a maintainer should confirm. - My two prior inline findings on this PR were both addressed in commit 4b20e2b and the threads are resolved.
- I traced the
META_TAGencoder/decoder for the edge cases the tests don't directly hit: data\x01adjacent to a literal*(\x01\x01\x01*decodes to offset at the*only), data\x01adjacent to data*(\x01\x01*decodes to no offset), and a trailing data\x01(doubled by encoder, un-doubled by decoder). All round-trip correctly. - The unconditional
BraceWordstransition inon_glob_walk_doneis safe for the non-brace glob path becausebrace_wordsstarts empty andload_next_brace_wordreturnsNoneonidx >= len.
Given the state-machine scope and the open semantic question, deferring to a human rather than approving.
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I reviewed this PR again after 4b20e2b and didn't find any bugs — both earlier findings (the Windows x.*.txt fixture and the missing ** case) are addressed, and the retargeted zero-variant test now reaches the branch it names. A maintainer look is still worthwhile: the author explicitly flagged two semantic choices for sign-off (a variant with no metacharacter never reaches the walker; a no-match variant errors per-word, zsh-style, rather than bash's keep-literal), and neither has been acknowledged yet.
What was reviewed:
- The
META_TAGencode/decode round-trip, including data0x01adjacent to both data and literal*, and the**two-tag shape. - The
BraceWordsstate transitions from every entry point — direct glob (empty list → Done), thecount == 0branch keeping the originalmeta_offsets, andon_glob_walk_doneon the success / no-match / in-assign paths. - Fixture filenames in the new tests for Windows-reserved characters —
[,],,are all legal.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
This PR reworks how src/runtime/shell/states/Expansion.rs composes brace expansion with pathname expansion. Instead of pushing every brace variant as a literal argv word and then globbing the original un-expanded pattern (which produced both the pattern text and the matches), it now stages the variants in a new brace_words list and drives them one at a time through a new BraceWords state — globbing each variant that carries a literal *, emitting the rest as plain words. Because brace expansion invalidates the byte offsets that distinguish a template * from an interpolated one, the PR introduces a META_TAG (0x01) prefix encoding that survives the brace lexer and is decoded back into per-variant meta_offsets. on_glob_walk_done now returns to BraceWords (which falls through to Done when the list is empty, so the non-brace glob path is unchanged). The test file gains eight new/tightened cases in brace.test.ts, including the src/**/*.test.{ts,tsx} repro from the second bug report and a retargeted zero-variant test.
Security risks
None identified. The change is confined to word-expansion ordering inside Bun's shell; it does not touch auth, network, filesystem permissions, or untrusted-input parsing beyond what the existing brace/glob machinery already handles. The META_TAG encoding is internal to do_brace_expand → decode_brace_word and cannot be injected from user input to change expansion structure (interpolated 0x01 bytes are doubled on encode and collapsed on decode; I traced the adjacency cases and they round-trip). The interpolation-stays-data invariant that neutralize_glob_metachars depends on is preserved and covered by two new tests.
Level of scrutiny
Moderate-to-high. This is a ~125-line change to a state machine in the shell interpreter, adds a new state and two new struct fields, and introduces an in-band byte encoding. It also makes a user-visible semantic decision (no-match variant errors per word, matching zsh rather than bash) that the author explicitly flagged for maintainer sign-off in the PR thread and which has not yet been acknowledged. That alone puts it outside what I should approve without a human look.
Other factors
Both findings from my previous run were addressed in 4b20e2b: the Windows-illegal x.*.txt fixture is gone (and while fixing it the author found the test wasn't reaching do_brace_expand at all, so it was retargeted to {x},*.txt), and the ** repro is now pinned verbatim with a depth-2 fixture that distinguishes it from single *. Test coverage is thorough and the PR description shows the fails-on-main / passes-on-PR gate. The remaining open item is not a code defect but the design sign-off the author asked for, plus a noted landing-order dependency on #39634 that could require a fixture change in one test.
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Brace expansion precedes pathname expansion, and each resulting word is
globbed on its own. A word combining both pushed every literal brace variant
to argv and then globbed the un-expanded pattern, so `{d1,d2}/*` handed the
command `d1/*` and `d2/*` as extra arguments alongside the real matches.
The variants are now parked in `brace_words` and expanded one at a time: a
variant carrying a literal `*` is globbed and replaced by its matches, any
other variant is already the final word. A literal `*` is tagged through the
brace lexer so each variant keeps accurate glob metacharacter offsets, which
`neutralize_glob_metachars` needs to tell template syntax from interpolated
data.
Assert the no-match word produces no stdout, run the suite concurrently, and add two cases for interpolation: an interpolated `*` never becomes a pattern, and a literal `*` globs a variant while an interpolated `[c]` in the same word stays data.
The state machine was described on the field, the variant, the match arm and the function; the tag encoding on the constant, the encoder and the decoder. Keep one home for each and point the rest at it.
…t, add a ** case
`x.*.txt` cannot be created on Windows, which failed brace.test.ts on both
Windows lanes. Removing it also exposed that `{x}.*.txt` never reaches
do_brace_expand: the brace hint needs a comma somewhere in the word, so the
test was exercising the plain glob path. It now uses `{x},*.txt` against
`x,a.txt` and `x,b.txt`, which does reach the zero-variant branch, and it
fails if that branch either emits the literal (main) or drops the offsets
(a naive merge of the branch with the tag encoding).
The ** case is the repro from the second report of this bug. `**` records
two adjacent offsets, so it pins that both survive the encoding; a depth-2
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I reviewed the current revision and found no issues — both earlier findings (the Windows x.*.txt fixture and the missing ** case) are addressed in 850e6a9. Given the state-machine rework in Expansion.rs and the two semantic choices the author already flagged for a maintainer nod (per-variant no-match erroring vs. bash's literal fallback, and non-* variants never reaching the walker), a human look is still worthwhile before merge.
What was reviewed:
- The
META_TAGencoding round-trips: data0x01is doubled, data*passes through un-tagged, anddecode_brace_wordrecovers adjacent offsets for**and for mixed template+interpolated words. on_glob_walk_done→BraceWordsis safe on the plain-glob path — an emptybrace_wordslist falls straight through toDone, so single-word globs are unchanged.- The
count == 0branch hands on the originalcurrent_out/meta_offsets(not the tag-encoded buffer), so a demoted{x}word still globs its template*.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
The PR reworks how Bun's shell composes brace expansion with pathname expansion in src/runtime/shell/states/Expansion.rs (~125 lines changed). It adds a BraceWords state and two new fields (brace_words, brace_word_idx) to the Expansion state node, introduces a META_TAG (0x01) byte-encoding to carry literal-* positions through the brace lexer (which invalidates meta_offsets), and rewires on_glob_walk_done to re-enter BraceWords instead of Done so each variant is globbed in turn. The test file gains ~90 net lines: five exact-output tests replacing the old toContain assertions, plus new coverage for **, interpolated metacharacters, per-variant no-match, and the zero-variant (count == 0) branch.
Security risks
The security-adjacent surface is the interpolation boundary: a */[/{ arriving via ${...}, $var, or command substitution must stay data and not broaden the glob. That guarantee lives in meta_offsets + neutralize_glob_metachars, and this PR replaces the offsets after brace expansion via the tag encoding. I traced the encoding and its inverse for the relevant shapes (data 0x01, data *, template *, template **, data-0x01 adjacent to data-*) and each round-trips to the correct offsets — data bytes never gain an offset, template * always does. Two tests pin this directly ({a,b}${"*"}.txt stays literal; {a,b}${"[c]"}* globs only the template *), and the pre-existing bunshell.test.ts interpolation suite is reported passing. No injection, auth, or path-traversal surface is touched.
Level of scrutiny
Medium-high. This is a control-flow change to the shell interpreter's word-expansion state machine, not a config tweak. It changes user-visible semantics: echo {d1,nope}/* now fails with no matches found: nope/* (matching zsh and Bun's own single-word rule) where bash keeps the literal. The author explicitly flagged that choice, and the "non-* variant is a plain word" rule, for a maintainer to confirm — no maintainer has replied on the thread yet. That alone puts this outside "simple and obvious enough that a human need not look".
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- All prior inline review threads (comment-cop, CodeRabbit, my two findings) are resolved and reflected in the current diff.
- Test coverage is strong: exact word lists (not
toContain), a**case with depth-2 and a non-matching sibling, per-variant error path with exit code and stderr asserted, and a three-way-verified zero-variant test. Fixtures use only Windows-legal filenames. - I verified the plain-glob path (no brace expansion) still terminates:
on_glob_walk_donenow transitions toBraceWords, but withbrace_wordsemptyload_next_brace_wordreturnsNoneimmediately and the state falls through toDone.deinitclears the newbrace_wordsfield. - The
count == 0 && glob_followsbranch correctly reuses the original (un-encoded)current_outandmeta_offsets, avoiding the naive-merge regression the rebase note describes.
Deferring rather than approving because the semantic decision on per-variant no-match handling is a maintainer call the author asked for, and ~125 lines of interpreter state-machine changes with a new in-band encoding warrant a human pass.
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Every command receives the pattern text as additional arguments:
rm {tmp,cache}/*also gets the literaltmp/*andcache/*, and a tool that creates its arguments creates files namedtmp/*.Cause
do_brace_expandinsrc/runtime/shell/states/Expansion.rspushed each brace variant straight to argv, then transitioned toGloband globbed the original pattern (bun's glob matcher understands brace groups, so it found the matches too). Result: literal variants plus matches.Brace expansion precedes pathname expansion, and each resulting word is globbed on its own.
{aa*,b}is not one glob:aa*is a pattern,bis a plain word that never reaches the walker.Fix
The variants are parked in
brace_words, and a newBraceWordsstate expands them one at a time, in order: a variant carrying a literal*is globbed and replaced by its matches, any other variant is already the final word. A no-match variant follows the rule bun already applies to a single glob word (error outside assignments, literal inside them), so the message now names the expanded word (no matches found: nope/*) rather than{d1,nope}/*.After brace expansion the word's
meta_offsetsno longer line up, and those offsets are whatneutralize_glob_metacharsuses to tell a*written in the template from a*that arrived via${...}interpolation. Each literal*is therefore tagged with a marker byte through the brace lexer and decoded back per variant; data bytes equal to the marker are doubled, so the encoding round-trips any input.Verification
bun bd test test/js/bun/shell/— thebrace + glob compositiontests intest/js/bun/shell/brace.test.tsasserted the old output (expect(words).toContain("src/*.ts")) and now assert the exact word list. Five tests cover it, all failing onmain:echo {d1,d2}/*d1/* d2/* d2/f3 d1/f1 d1/f2d1/f1 d1/f2 d2/f3echo src/*.{ts,tsx}src/*.ts src/*.tsx src/app.ts src/util.tsxsrc/app.ts src/util.tsxecho {a*,nope}a* nope aa ab nopeaa ab nopeecho *{1,2}*1 *2 d1 d2d1 d2echo {d1,nope}/*d1/* nope/* d1/f1 d1/f2bun: no matches found: nope/*Interpolation stays data:
echo {a,b}${"*"}.txtstill yields the literal wordsa*.txt b*.txt, and theinterpolated values cannot inject glob syntaxsuite inbunshell.test.tspasses unchanged.Glob result ordering (bun does not sort matches) and bash's
{a*unmatched-brace handling are separate pre-existing divergences, untouched here.Rebase notes
Rebased onto
mainafter #34856 (comma-less{x}is literal), #34865, #34882, #36165, #36184 and #37921 landed in the same two files. One conflict needed a real decision, not a textual merge.#34856 added a
count == 0path todo_brace_expand: when the lexer demotes every group to literal text, the word is emitted unchanged viavec![current_out.clone()]. Auto-merge combined that with this PR's tag encoding, so the untagged word would have gone throughdecode_brace_word, come out with no metacharacter offsets, and had its template*neutralized. The resolution hands the unchanged word on with its originalmeta_offsetsinstead of round-tripping it. I checked this by building the auto-merged version: it fails main's own test "a word with a comma-less brace group and a glob keeps its pattern", and the resolved version passes it. A second test pins the path from this side (template*globs, interpolated*stays data).New fields and the
BraceWordstruct usepub(crate)to match the visibility pass in #36184.While doing this I found that the brace lexer and the glob matcher now disagree about a comma-less
{x}(the lexer says literal, the matcher still reads a one-branch group, soecho {x},*.txtmatchesx,a.txt). That predates this PR and is fixed separately in #39634. The test "a zero-variant word with a matching glob emits only the matches" documents the current matcher reading on purpose. If #39634 lands first, its two fixtures become{x},a.txtand{x},b.txtand the expected list changes to match; nothing else in this PR depends on the order.Verified on the rebased tree:
brace.test.ts48 pass, 6 of them fail withsrc/reverted tomain;brace.test.ts+bunshell.test.tstogether 472 pass, 0 fail.[review] gate passed · iteration 2 · 2 files touched
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