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Problem

  • test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts checked each bun child only for error: in stderr. A warning, a spurious Saved lockfile, or a panic on a run that should write nothing passed.
  • expectInSync compared a dependency group, the overrides or a catalog only when package.json declared it, so a stale copy left in bun.lock passed.
  • The file was flagged as slow (10s on x64-asan, build 105417). That lever is not in this file (notes).

Fix

Background

  • bun.lock repeats each workspace's dependency groups under workspaces, plus the root's overrides and catalogs. expectInSync compares those to the package.json files, then runs bun install --frozen-lockfile, which fails if bun would change the lockfile.
  • A bun update that only rewrote a literal reports (no changes) on stdout today (bun update reports (no changes) while rewriting package.json #38908). Its stderr still says Saved lockfile, which is what this file pins.
Notes

Why this PR no longer reduces the child process count. The first revision merged cases that run the same command on the same kind of tree into multi-package cases (77 cases to 57, 242 bun children to 183, measured by wrapping Bun.spawn). Locally that was 13.6s and 13.8s to 11.5s and 11.6s. In CI it is about 2.5s of a 436s ASAN shard, nothing on the other lanes (the file takes 1.1s to 2.9s there), and no gate reads it: the only per-file budget, --skip-slower-than=10000 in .buildkite/ci.mjs:833, applies to the untiered darwin lanes. Three open bugfix branches (#38847, #38866, #38918) add cases to this file. A 77-to-57 restructure is not worth that for 2.5s, so the cases are back as they were.

Where the ASAN time of this file goes, for separate changes.

  • Startup of every debug child: bun-debug --version takes 92ms, 69ms of it sys time, and 26ms with MIMALLOC_ARENA_EAGER_COMMIT=0. With that variable in the environment this file takes 8.7s instead of 11.5s locally and its sys time drops from 19.6s to 5.4s. The build-time equivalent is MI_DEFAULT_ARENA_EAGER_COMMIT (vendor/mimalloc/src/options.c:46) in the ASAN block of scripts/build/deps/mimalloc.ts. It needs its own check of the ASAN tracking.
  • The registry: VerdaccioRegistry.start forks verdaccio with execPath: isCI ? bunExe() : ... (test/harness.ts:1934), so in CI verdaccio itself runs on the ASAN build. About 31 files pay that boot.
  • scripts/update-parallel-allowlist.mjs:174 excludes all of cli/install/ from the parallel batch, so every install file runs serially in its shard, including the hermetic ones like this file (per-dir cache, verdaccio.createTestDir).
  • bun test runs consecutive concurrent cases 5 at a time under ASAN (src/options_types/context.rs:506). Every case here is already describe.concurrent.
  • VerdaccioRegistry.stop calls process.kill(0), which sends no signal, so each run leaves its verdaccio process behind. 37 were alive on the machine after a day of runs, and the thread exhaustion that followed made bun install panic with Failed to start HTTP Client thread.

Assertion changes in detail.

  • run/runIn (signatures unchanged) assert /^(?:Saved lockfile)?$/ on the normalized stderr and return { stdout, stderr }. Call sites pin SAVED on 50 runs and "" on the runs that must write nothing: update on a * range that already resolves the newest version, update no-deps on an exact literal, the two bare-alias rows, update on a dist-tag, 1.x and =1.0.0 catalog entry, and --dry-run. Before: not.toContain("error:").
  • install(dir, { frozen, stderr }) replaces runBunInstall: Saved lockfile exactly for every setup install and re-install, "" for every --frozen-lockfile install and for the second install of the reinstall: true cases (before: not.toContain("Saved lockfile")). The two cases with a name in dependencies and devDependencies pin bun's duplicate-dependency warning with duplicateWarning(...).
  • expectInSync builds one object per workspace and compares all groups, overrides and catalogs in one toStrictEqual, including fields only bun.lock has.
  • resolutions(dir) without a name lists every resolved name@version (workspace members included), replacing the per-name lists in 16 places. bun update --latest checks the whole workspaces[""] lockfile entry instead of not.toContain("latest"); the catalog --latest cases check the resolutions instead of lockText.not.toContain('"latest"'). The alias rows and bun add --catalog --filter compare whole objects.
  • The 5 range rows pin the ^ no-deps 1.0.0 -> <version> line exactly instead of a regex that accepted either arrow. The * no-op, the duplicate-dependency move, the -r move, the --dry-run summary and the two error cases are inline snapshots.

Compatibility with the open branches. #38847 and #38866 call run(dir, "update", ...), runIn(dir, PKG2, ...), installed(dir, name) with toMatchObject, setup(..., { install: false }) and expectInSync(dir, [...]). All keep their shapes and semantics. A case of theirs whose update writes nothing passes run (stderr "" is accepted) and can pin it later.


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Test-only change.

Debug/ASAN (expected pass):
$ bun bd test 'test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts'
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts
bun test v1.4.1 (861e9ae04)

test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts:
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update --latest [676.76ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update leaves a 1.x range as written and moves bun.lock to 1.1.0 [801.85ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update leaves a * range as written and moves bun.lock to 2.0.0 [851.34ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update leaves a 1 range as written and moves bun.lock to 1.1.0 [867.56ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update [927.69ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update on a * range that already resolves the newest version leaves both files byte-identical [379.02ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update <name> keeps the pin style [514.93ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update --latest rewrites a * range [569.40ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update leaves a >=1.0.0 range as written and moves bun.lock to 2.0.0 [849.56ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update leaves a 1.0.0 - 1.0.1 range as written and moves bun.lock to 1.0.1 [802.61ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update <name> on an exact literal [660.70ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update <alias> keeps the alias [505.96ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update <name>@<range> [653.88ms]
(pass) bun update rewrites bun.lock together with package.json > bun update <name> keeps a * literal and leaves the unnamed sibling
... (truncated)
Exit: 0
diff hotspot
test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts | 417 ++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 270 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)

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file                                               reads  edits  tests
test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts      9      4      0

…st.ts and tighten its assertions

Merge the cases that run the same command on the same kind of tree into
one case with several packages, so the file starts 183 bun processes
instead of 242. Pin stderr exactly, snapshot the update and add
summaries, and compare whole lockfile and node_modules states.
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The test suite expands Bun CLI coverage for lockfile synchronization across updates, workspace scoping, aliases, catalogs, additions, output normalization, and reinstall transitions.

Lockfile synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Synchronization harness and consistency checks
test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts
Adds command wrappers, normalized output checks, saved-lockfile assertions, generalized resolution collection, and declared-versus-locked consistency validation.
Root update behavior
test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts
Covers aliases, scoped packages, dist-tags, ranges, literals, resolution changes, unchanged updates, and exact configurations.
Workspace update scoping
test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts
Validates recursive, filtered, member-invoked, dry-run, and sibling-preserving workspace updates.
Alias and add command matrix
test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts
Covers alias retargeting, missing aliases, workspace additions, filtered additions, lockfile-only mode, trust behavior, and existing development dependencies.
Catalog synchronization
test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts
Covers catalog ranges, aliases, tags, workspace references, exact pins, unchanged operators, filtered additions, and override synchronization.
Reinstall and dependent resolution transitions
test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts
Validates direct and nested resolution changes, dependency removal and restoration, reinstall behavior, and dependent re-pointing.

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Status: test-only change, ready for review. Scope reduced to the assertion tightening.

The first revision also merged cases to cut the child process count (77 cases to 57, 242 bun children to 183). Locally that was 13.6s to 11.5s; in CI it is about 2.5s of a 436s ASAN shard and nothing on the other lanes, and three open bugfix branches add cases to this file. The self-review judged that restructure not worth it, and I agree. The 77 cases are back unchanged; the stricter helpers stay.

What the file now pins: stderr of every child exactly (Saved lockfile where bun.lock is rewritten, nothing where it must not be, the duplicate-dependency warning where expected), a two-sided package.json/bun.lock comparison, every resolved name@version, what bun add installed, and 8 inline snapshots of version moves, no-op summaries and error output. A failing child shows its stdout, stderr and exit code in one message (5c215f9). 77 pass with the debug and release builds.

Where the ASAN time of this file actually goes is in the description's notes: mimalloc's eager arena commit in every debug child (92ms vs 26ms startup), verdaccio booting on the ASAN binary in CI, the serial scheduling of all cli/install/ files, and VerdaccioRegistry.stop not killing its process. Each is a harness or build change for a separate PR.

CI (build 105842, this head): test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts passed on all 11 platforms. The build is red on test/js/bun/test/parallel/test-http-should-accept-custom-certs-when-provided.ts (an expired fixture certificate, every lane, also on main) and on test/cli/install/bun-add.test.ts on windows 2019 x64 (a git clone over SSH timed out). Neither touches this file; both are reported for a fix on main. A re-run would fail on the certificate until main is fixed.

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I reviewed this and didn't find any bugs. It's a large test-only refactor (77→57 cases, ~500 lines) that consolidates test cases and tightens assertions — the mapping table is thorough, but a human pass over which cases were folded together would be worthwhile to confirm no coverage was quietly lost.

What was reviewed:

  • Traced the case-consolidation table against the diff — each removed test.each row and standalone case maps to a package/assertion in a surviving case.
  • Checked the new run helper's exact-stderr default and PROGRESS_LINES/duplicateWarning regexes — anchored and stricter than the old not.toContain("error:").
  • Verified resolved()/installed() and the expectInSync rewrite compare a superset of what the old helpers did.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR touches only test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts. It consolidates 77 concurrent test cases into 57 by merging cases that ran the same command on the same shape of tree (five range rows into one multi-package case, four of eight alias rows folded into other cases, eight bun add rows into four, six catalog cases into two on a FULL_CATALOG, two $ref cases into one). It also replaces the loose stderr.not.toContain("error:") check with exact stderr matching (default "Saved lockfile", or "" for no-op runs), adds 44 inline stdout snapshots, and rewrites installed/resolved/expectInSync to compare full objects instead of single keys. Net effect: 242 → 183 spawned bun processes, ~25% faster under ASAN.

Security risks

None. Test-only change against a local Verdaccio registry; no production code, auth, crypto, or network paths touched.

Level of scrutiny

Medium. It's test-only, so the blast radius is CI signal — but the repo review guide is explicit that silently weakening or deleting tests is a blocking concern. The consolidation is the part that needs a human eye: e.g., the five bun update leaves a %s range rows (each a single-dep tree) become one six-dep tree, and four separate catalog cases collapse onto one FULL_CATALOG. The per-package assertions still cover every literal→resolution pair the old rows checked, and the mapping table in the PR body accounts for each dropped case, but confirming that merging these into one tree doesn't lose an interaction the isolated case would have caught is a judgment call for someone who knows the update/add code paths.

Other factors

  • The assertion changes are strictly tightening (exact toBe/toStrictEqual/inline snapshots replacing regex and not.toContain), which is what the review guide asks for.
  • The PR notes two snapshots pin odd-looking existing summary-printer output (^ no-deps 1.1.0 -> 1.0.1 in the -r scoped case, and the missing ^ line for a workspace-only catalog update) — these are documented as existing behavior, not new.
  • Author verified 57/57 pass with bun bd test and the release build.
  • The removed runBunInstall import is replaced by a local install() wrapper that is stricter on stderr; no harness-level behavior is lost.
  • No prior human reviews or unresolved comments on the timeline.

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(Superseded. This comment described the merged multi-package cases of the first revision. Commit 1537511 restored the original 77 cases and kept only the assertion tightening, so there is no case mapping to check anymore. The description's notes explain why.)

…ots that pin known misreports

`run(dir, ...args)`, `runIn`, `tryRun(dir, rel, ...args)`, `installed(dir, name)`
and `resolutions(dir, name?)` keep their shapes, so cases that other branches
add to this file keep working. `run` returns both streams and requires stderr
to be empty or `Saved lockfile`; call sites pin which.

The `(no changes)` line after a package.json rewrite and a catalog move without
its row are known misreports with open fixes, so those summaries are checked
through the files they write instead of a snapshot.
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In `@test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts`:
- Around line 131-161: Update expectInSync to compare dependency-group keys from
both the manifest and lockfile, including stale groups present only in bun.lock;
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expectInSync compared a dependency group, the overrides or a catalog only
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it consolidates 77 test cases into 57 by folding related cases into shared trees, a human pass over the mapping table in the description would be worthwhile to confirm no coverage is lost.

What was reviewed:

  • Traced each removed case (5 range rows, 4 alias rows, 4 add rows, catalog folds, bun update -r, $ref overrides) to its new home per the Notes table.
  • Checked that assertions are strictly tighter: exact stderr pinning (SAVED/"") replaces not.toContain, inline snapshots replace regex matches, resolutions() now lists every package.
  • Confirmed the CodeRabbit finding on expectInSync (one-sided comparison) was addressed in 93581c5 — groups/overrides/catalogs are now compared when either side has them.
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Overview

This PR refactors a single test file, test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts, to reduce CI time by cutting the number of spawned bun child processes from 242 to 183. It does this by consolidating 77 test cases into 57: cases that run the same command on the same kind of tree are merged into one case with multiple packages. It also substantially tightens assertions — replacing not.toContain("error:") with exact stderr matching, adding 32 inline snapshots of bun update/bun add summaries, making resolutions() list every resolved package instead of filtering to one name, and rewriting expectInSync to compare all groups/overrides/catalogs in one toStrictEqual (now two-sided per the CodeRabbit fix).

Security risks

None. This is a test-only change with no runtime code touched.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-to-high. While test-only, the change folds independent test cases together, which is exactly the kind of edit REVIEW.md flags: "Never silently weaken, skip, or delete an existing test or safety net." The PR is not silent — it provides a detailed mapping table — but verifying that each fold preserves the original assertion's ability to fail requires walking through the table. For example, the five bun update leaves a %s range as written rows now share one tree with a different package per range style; the author notes each range is checked against its own package so a mangled style would still show as a single differing entry, but combining packages into one tree also exercises deduplication that the single-package cases did not. That is arguably more coverage, not less, but it changes what the test observes.

Other factors

The PR is thoroughly documented (per-case mapping, process counts measured by wrapping Bun.spawn, timing on quiet and loaded machines, compatibility notes for open PRs #38847/#38866 that add cases to this file, and which summaries are deliberately not snapshotted to avoid conflicts with #38918/#38763). The author verified 57 pass with both debug and release builds. The one CodeRabbit finding (one-sided expectInSync comparison) was addressed in the third commit and the thread is resolved. CI build #105759 is running. Given the scale of the case-folding and the judgment required to confirm equivalence, a maintainer familiar with what each original case was protecting should sign off.

… tighten only the assertions

The merged multi-package cases saved about 2.5s of one ASAN shard and
changed a file that three open bugfix branches add cases to. Restore the
original cases and keep the stricter helpers: exact stderr, a two-sided
lockfile comparison, full resolution lists, and snapshots for the moves
the cases are about.
@robobun robobun changed the title test(install): run fewer bun processes in bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts and tighten its assertions test(install): pin stderr and the whole lockfile state in bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts Aug 25, 2026

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57-60: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Assert expected stdout before exitCode.

runIn asserts exitCode on Line 60 before callers can assert returned stdout. For example, the output assertion at Line 222 cannot run when the command exits nonzero. Accept an expected stdout value in the wrapper, or return exitCode for the caller to assert after stdout.

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In `@test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts` around lines 57 - 60,
Update the runIn helper so callers can assert the command’s stdout before the
helper asserts exitCode, either by accepting an expected stdout value or
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A failing run shows all three in the message instead of the exit code alone.
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On the stdout-before-exitCode point from the review: runIn and install now check the whole { stdout, stderr, exitCode } result in one toEqual (5c215f9). A child that exits nonzero fails with its stdout and stderr in the message, not the exit code alone. The two cases that use tryRun directly assert stderr, then stdout, then the exit code.

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🟡 The PR title and description are stale after commit 1537511 reverted the case consolidation — the final diff keeps all 77 cases and every runBunInstall→install swap is 1:1, so no process reduction remains. Please retitle to something like "test(install): tighten bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts assertions" and drop the 242→183 / 77→57 / timing claims and the "Where each old case went" folding table (and the two robobun comments that repeat them).

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What's stale

The PR was opened at c480772, which merged 77 cases into 57 and cut child-process count from 242 to 183. Commit 1537511 ("keep the 77 cases of bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts, tighten only the assertions") then reverted the consolidation while keeping the assertion tightening. The title, description, and two robobun status comments were never updated to match.

Proof the diff no longer reduces cases or processes

Checking each claim in the description's "Where each old case went" table against the final diff:

  1. 5-row range test.each — description says these merged into one case with six packages. The diff shows the table unchanged at 5 rows (["*", "2.0.0"], ["1", "1.1.0"], ["1.x", "1.1.0"], [">=1.0.0", "2.0.0"], ["1.0.0 - 1.0.1", "1.0.1"]).
  2. "* range already newest and --latest rewrites a * range → one case" — both remain separate tests in the final file.
  3. "bun update -r → folded into -r keeps a member's dist-tag literal" — both remain separate tests.
  4. "8 npm-alias ROWS → 4 rows" — ROWS still has 8 entries.
  5. "8 bun add rows → 4 rows" — the bun add $args test.each still has 8 entries.
  6. "catalogs bun update, keeps a dist-tag, keeps a 1.x entry, bumps an aliased range → one case on FULL_CATALOG" — all four remain separate tests; there is no FULL_CATALOG.

Base and HEAD both have 55 test(/test.each( declarations (verified via grep on both sides of the diff), and no test.each row is removed, so both expand to the same 77 cases. Every runBunInstall(envFor(dir), dir, ...) → install(dir, ...) replacement spawns exactly one process either way, so the child-process count is unchanged from main.

Why this matters

CLAUDE.md rule #11: "Be humble & honest — NEVER overstate what you got done or what actually works in commits, PRs or in messages to the user." The current title and description claim a ~25% process reduction and a wall-clock speedup that this PR no longer delivers. A reviewer skimming the title/description would approve based on a change that isn't in the diff, and git log --oneline / the merge commit would permanently record a false claim.

Impact

No runtime impact — the code is fine and the 77 cases pass. This is purely PR-metadata accuracy.

Fix

  • Title → something like test(install): tighten bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts assertions.
  • Description → drop the first Fix bullet's "57 cases start 183 processes instead of 242", change "57 pass" back to "77 pass", drop the 13.6s→11.5s timing claims, and delete the entire "Where each old case went" table plus the "Process counts" and "Timing" paragraphs from Notes. Keep the assertion-change bullets, the "Which summaries are snapshotted" paragraph, the compatibility paragraph, and the mimalloc observation (all still accurate).
  • The two robobun comments at 11:03Z and 11:14Z that repeat the 242→183 / 77→57 numbers and reference the folding table should be edited or struck through.

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Thanks — title, description, and the 11:03Z status comment are now accurate (77 cases, no process-reduction claim; the 242→183 / 77→57 / timing numbers survive only as historical context under "Why this PR no longer reduces the child process count", and the "Where each old case went" table is gone).

One leftover: the 11:14Z robobun comment is still stale. It tells reviewers to consult "the table under Notes in the description [that] lists where each of the 77 old cases went" (that table no longer exists) and describes checking "the merged bun update leaves ... ranges as written case" and "a multi-package tree [that] also exercises deduplication" — none of which are in the final diff, since the 5-row test.each and the single-dependency bun update case are unchanged. Please strike through or edit that comment so a reviewer isn't sent looking for merged cases that aren't there.

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robobun commented Aug 25, 2026

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The title and description were rewritten for the current diff after 1537511 ("pin stderr and the whole lockfile state", 77 pass, no process or case counts in the Fix bullets). The numbers that remain are in the notes paragraph that explains why the first revision's consolidation was dropped. The status comment was updated at the same time, and the earlier comment about the folded cases is now marked superseded.

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LGTM — test-only assertion tightening, and the stale title/description from my earlier note have been fixed.

What was reviewed:

  • run/runIn/install now pin normalized stderr exactly (Saved lockfile vs "") and assert {stdout, stderr, exitCode} in one toEqual — strictly tighter than the old not.toContain("error:").
  • expectInSync is now two-sided (compares a group when either package.json or bun.lock has it), addressing the CodeRabbit finding.
  • All 77 cases kept; resolutions(dir) widened to list every resolved package; 8 inline snapshots use normalizeBunSnapshot so version/revision are normalized.
  • Checked that no existing assertion was weakened or removed — every replaced check is equal or stricter.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Test-only change to test/cli/install/bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts (+270/-147). Replaces the loose stderr.not.toContain("error:") check with exact stderr pinning on every spawned bun child, makes expectInSync compare fields from both package.json and bun.lock (so a stale lockfile entry fails), widens resolutions() to return the full resolved set, and adds 8 inline snapshots for version-move summaries and error output. The 77 test cases and helper signatures are preserved after commit 1537511 reverted an earlier case-consolidation attempt.

Security risks

None. No runtime code touched; the change only tightens test assertions against a local Verdaccio registry.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. Test-only, mechanical, and every replaced assertion is strictly tighter than what it replaces — this is exactly what the repo's review guidance asks for ("assert exact values on normalized output", "never bare toThrow"). The main risk with exact-stderr pinning is brittleness to unrelated output changes, but normalizeBunSnapshot + the PROGRESS_LINES strip handle the variable parts, and the duplicateWarning regex wildcards the path-containing source-excerpt lines. Verified against runBunInstall in test/harness.ts that the local install helper is a stricter subset (it pins stderr exactly where runBunInstall only rejected error:/warn: substrings).

Other factors

Both prior review comments are resolved: CodeRabbit's two-sided-comparison suggestion landed in 93581c5, and my earlier note about the stale title/description (which claimed a 77→57 case reduction that 1537511 reverted) has been addressed — the title and description now accurately describe the assertion-only change and "77 pass". The bug-hunting system found no issues. The PR description reports 77/77 passing on both debug and release builds, and robobun reports the file green on all 11 CI platforms on the previous build. The one remaining stale artifact is the robobun 11:14Z informational comment referencing a "folded cases" table that no longer exists, but that's a moot bot note, not PR metadata.

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