[robobun]

Problem

• test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts takes 11s on Windows 11 aarch64 and 4s on Windows x64 (build 108747). The cost is git: each case ran six git commands through spawnSync, 125 in a row, which blocked the concurrent cases too. The file is on test/parallel-denylist.txt because cases timed out inside the parallel batch.
• The assertions were loose. Nothing checked the --changed: status line or the Ran line, and the error case only checked that stderr contains "git".

Fix

• Commit the shared fixture once in beforeAll and copy the repo (.git included) per case with tempDir(name, base). Seven cases run no git at all.
• initRepo runs 3 git processes instead of 6 and is async, so concurrent cases overlap. maintenance.auto=false stops each git commit from spawning a maintenance child. 125 git processes become 33. The watch block runs concurrently too.
• Every filtering case pins the exact sorted file list, the --changed: status line and the Ran ... line with toEqual. No-run cases, the error case and each watch run pin the whole normalized stderr as inline snapshots.
• Verified: bun bd test test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts, 6 runs, 20 pass, plus 4 runs each on Windows x64 and aarch64 (canary build). Timings are in the notes. Self-reviewed: 3 concerns raised, 3 addressed.

Background

• bun test --changed asks git for the changed files and runs only the test files whose import graph reaches one. Each spawned run makes 3 git calls of its own, which stay.
• The scanner lists test files in directory order, which differs between filesystems, so the test sorts the file headers.
• Git compares file contents when the index stat data does not match the file, so a copied repo reports a clean tree and an appended file as changed.

Notes

Wall clock of the whole file, same machine, old then new (head a2307f7):

machine	build	old	new
linux x64	release (USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test)	0.98 to 1.14s	0.27 to 0.29s
linux x64	debug ASAN (bun bd test), interleaved runs	6.39, 6.67, 6.63s	5.25, 5.51, 5.45s
linux x64	debug ASAN, same runs under heavier container load	9.04, 9.20, 9.05s	7.20, 6.60, 7.65s
Windows Server 2019 x64	release canary	3.55 to 3.77s	0.66 to 0.68s
Windows 11 aarch64	release canary	9.09 to 9.30s	1.28 to 1.37s

On CI (build 108813, before maintenance.auto=false), the Windows 11 aarch64 shard ran the file in 3.0s, down from 11s in build 108747. The file's shard is not the longest one on that lane, so the lane's wall time does not move. The gain is per-file cost and batch behavior.

The debug build gains less because the cost there is the start of about 20 debug bun processes, not git.

Git processes spawned by the test file itself (the 3 per bun test --changed run are not counted): before, 20 x initRepo (6 each) + 5 = 125. After, 1 base initRepo (3) + 9 custom fixtures (3 each) + 1 git add + 2 git commit -a = 33. Each of the 12 commits also used to spawn git maintenance run --auto --quiet --detach. With maintenance.auto=false git spawns nothing (checked with GIT_TRACE=1). On Windows that child cannot detach, so the commit waited for it.

Parallel batch: cli/test/test-changed.test.ts is in test/parallel-denylist.txt (and in excludeFiles of test/parallel-allowlist.json) because cases timed out inside the shard's parallel batch and passed alone. The 125 serial spawnSync git calls under batch CPU contention are the likely cause, and this PR removes them. Taking the file off the denylist is a separate follow-up once it has a clean run history.

Assertion changes, case by case:

• no changes, change to a file no test imports, change inside node_modules: full normalized stderr as inline snapshots (status line, 0 pass, 0 fail, Ran 0 tests across 0 files.).
• the four edit cases (now one test.each table), shared dependency, staged, untracked, both --changed=<ref> cases, both subdirectory cases, syntax-error dependency, tsconfig paths: summarize(stderr) compared with toEqual against the exact status line (changed-file count and N/M test files), the exact sorted file list and the exact Ran line. The old ranFiles(stderr, names) checked the selected set against a known list but not the counts. The subdirectory and tsconfig cases now also pin the cwd-relative header paths (tests/alias.test.ts).
• errors helpfully outside a git repo: inline snapshot error: --changed: fatal: not a git repository: '<dir>/no-such-git-dir' and exitCode 1. Was: stderr.toLowerCase() contains "git" and exitCode not 0.
• stdout pinned to bun test <version> (<revision>) in the no-changes case, the edit table and the error case.
• watch cases: watchRuns(proc).next() returns exactly one run, cut at the end of its complete Ran ... line (the old waitFor could return while that line was still partial). Each single-file run is an inline snapshot. The two-file initial run of the "dirty files" case uses summarize. The trigger-name case keeps its hex check and also snapshots the run with the path replaced.

Self-review findings and what changed:

• A watch test that never sees a complete Ran line would have hung until bun's test timeout. In a concurrent group bun does not kill a timed-out test's children (kill_dangling_processes_on_timeout only acts when one sequence runs), so the bun test --watch child would have outlived the test and the failure would have shown none of its output. watchRuns.next() now races each read against a deadline at 80% of the test timeout and rejects with the buffered output. The rejection makes the test body throw, so await using proc kills the child and using dir removes the temp dir. Checked with an unmatchable regex and a 6s timeout: the three cases fail at about 5s, each failure prints the child's stderr, and no watcher process survives.
• GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL does not redirect the global ignore file (~/.config/git/ignore). A node_modules/ rule there made git add -A skip the node_modules fixture, and the new exact snapshot in that case failed (19 pass, 1 fail with XDG_CONFIG_HOME pointing at such a rule). core.excludesFile now points at the same empty file. 20 pass under that env.
• git commit spawned a maintenance child per commit (see above). maintenance.auto=false.

Other changes:

• setDefaultTimeout goes from 120s (ASAN) / 30s to 30s (ASAN or debug) / 10s. The slowest case takes about 1s under the debug ASAN build here and about 1s on Windows aarch64 release. The per-test 60s timeouts on the watch cases are gone.
• gitEnv sets LC_ALL=C. The error case pins the git message that bun test --changed relays, and git translates its messages when the locale is not English.
• proc.kill() and reader.releaseLock() in the watch cases are gone. await using proc kills the child once the test body completes or throws.
• test: add --changed-first to run affected test files first #36865 adds cases to this file. It calls initRepo without await and uses ranFiles, which this PR replaces with summarize. Both are small rebase edits.

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^{Updated 8:08 AM PT - Aug 31st, 2026}

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Changes

CLI changed-test coverage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Repository fixtures and deterministic output test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts	Tests use debug-aware timeouts, deterministic Git configuration, asynchronous Git commands, shared fixtures, per-test repository copies, and normalized output.
Non-watch changed-test scenarios test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts	Tests assert exact selected files, statuses, run counts, exit codes, dependency filtering, and non-Git errors.
Watch-mode run synchronization test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts	Watch tests use shared process helpers and incremental run parsing for dependency, dirty-test, and trigger-file changes. Exact reruns and trigger suffixes are validated.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a2307

The watch-test helper may time out later runs prematurely even when the watcher produces complete results, causing flaky test failures. The PR is otherwise mergeable, but the deadline should be reset for each watch run.

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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked that summarize()'s .endsWith(".test.ts:") filter holds on Windows for the subdirectory/tsconfig cases — normalizeBunSnapshot converts \ → / before the split, so tests/alias.test.ts: matches. Also verified tempDir(name, String(base)) recursively copies .git (harness makeTreeSync → fs.cpSync({recursive: true})), and that the watchRuns framing regex's trailing \n is safe because the watch describe is skipIf(isWindows).

Extended reasoning...

This is a test-only refactor that tightens assertions and speeds up setup. The one confirmed finding (pinning git's own fatal: not a git repository wording in an inline snapshot) is a real portability risk since gitEnv doesn't set LANG/LC_ALL and git's phrasing varies across versions. Beyond that, I read the new summarize helper against Windows path separators (the subdirectory and tsconfig cases now pin tests/alias.test.ts instead of just checking membership) — normalizeBunSnapshot already normalizes backslashes so the .test.ts: suffix filter is stable. I also confirmed the tempDir(name, String(base)) copy path uses fs.cpSync({recursive: true}) so the .git directory comes along, and that the watchRuns regex's required trailing \n isn't a CRLF hazard because the whole watch block is skipped on Windows. Nothing else stood out.

[claude]

LGTM — thanks for adding LC_ALL: "C" to gitEnv, that addresses the locale concern on the pinned git error snapshot.

What was reviewed:

• summarize() vs the old ranFiles() — the .endsWith(".test.ts:") filter plus sort now catches extra files the old contains-check would miss.
• watchRuns().next() framing — the /^Ran ... \n/m regex requires the trailing newline, so it can't return on a partially-written summary line; done throws with the buffer for diagnosis.
• Dropped proc.kill()/reader.releaseLock() in watch tests — covered by await using proc on the Bun.spawn handle.
• beforeAll base-repo copy via tempDir(name, String(base)) and the git commit -a shortcut — per-case isolation is preserved since each test mutates its own copy.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Test-only refactor of test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts (no runtime code touched). Converts the sync spawnSync git helpers to async Bun.spawn, commits the shared fixture once in beforeAll and copies it per case, replaces the loose ranFiles() contains-check with a structured summarize() + toEqual and inline snapshots, collapses four near-identical edit cases into test.each, and extracts spawnWatch()/watchRuns() helpers for the three --watch cases. gitEnv gains LC_ALL=C and GIT_CONFIG_{COUNT,KEY_0,VALUE_0} so commit.gpgsign=false is set via env instead of a per-repo git config process.

Security risks

None. The change only touches a test file: it spawns local git and bun processes against tempDir-created fixtures, contacts no network, and handles no untrusted input.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. It is a test refactor with no effect on shipped code; the worst failure mode is a flaky or over-tight snapshot, which fails loudly in CI rather than silently regressing behavior. The diff closely follows the repo's harness conventions from CLAUDE.md/test/CLAUDE.md: bunExe()/bunEnv, tempDir, normalizeBunSnapshot + toMatchInlineSnapshot, structured .toEqual over chained .toContain, stderr asserted before exitCode, await using for subprocess disposal, describe.concurrent for independent spawns, and setDefaultTimeout branched on isASAN || isDebug.

Other factors

My one prior (optional) note — the git-error snapshot pinning git's own localized stderr — was addressed in the follow-up commit by adding LC_ALL: "C" to gitEnv with an explanatory comment. No CODEOWNERS entry covers this path. No third-party CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews are outstanding. The bug hunt exited on a dry streak with no findings, and the PR description reports passing runs on Linux debug-ASAN plus Windows x64/aarch64 canary, which covers the cross-platform snapshot risk. The remaining residual — that a future git release rewords fatal: not a git repository — is a routine snapshot-maintenance cost and was already called out as optional.

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Status

• CI on a2307f7 (build 108866): all 181 jobs pass. Both review threads are resolved. Ready for review.
• Head a2307f7 adds the self-review fixes: a deadline in watchRuns.next() so a hung watcher fails with its output and gets killed, core.excludesFile pointed at the empty config so a global node_modules/ ignore rule cannot break the node_modules case, and maintenance.auto=false so git commit spawns no maintenance child.
• CI on 3f3525d (build 108813): the file passed on every lane. On the Windows 11 aarch64 shard it took 3.0s (11s in build 108747). The one red job there was test/js/web/fetch/fetch-backpressure.test.ts, which fails on main too and is reported separately.
• Local timings, old then new, same machine: Windows 11 aarch64 9.2s to 1.3s, Windows 2019 x64 3.6s to 0.67s, Linux release 1.0s to 0.28s, Linux debug ASAN 6.6s to 5.5s. The file ran 6 times in a row under bun bd test and 4 times on each Windows machine without a failure.

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[claude]

LGTM — the latest push addresses the remaining concerns.

What was reviewed: confirmed tempDir(name, String(base)) hits the harness copy-folder path so the shared .git is duplicated per case; the new watchRuns() deadline rejects before the outer timeout so await using still kills a hung watcher and the failure message includes the buffered output; LC_ALL=C plus the core.excludesFile / maintenance.auto env config keeps the pinned git error and the node_modules fixture stable across CI git configs; summarize() sorts file headers so filesystem-order differences don't flake the toEqual assertions.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR is a test-only refactor of test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts with no production code touched. It replaces per-test spawnSync-based git repo setup with a single base repo committed in beforeAll and copied per case via tempDir(name, String(base)), converts the git() helper to async Bun.spawn, moves per-repo git config calls into GIT_CONFIG_COUNT/GIT_CONFIG_KEY_n env vars, collapses four near-identical edit cases into a test.each table, replaces the loose ranFiles() substring check with summarize() that pins the exact status line / sorted file list / Ran ... line, moves several cases to full normalizeBunSnapshot inline snapshots, and rewrites the --watch block around a watchRuns() reader that yields one complete run at a time with an internal deadline. Three commits: the initial refactor, an LC_ALL=C fix (addressing my earlier inline comment about localized git messages), and a final commit adding the watch-run deadline plus core.excludesFile/maintenance.auto neutralization.

Security risks

None. This is test infrastructure only — no runtime, parsing, auth, crypto, or network code is touched. The test spawns local git and bun processes against harness-created temp directories with a hermetic env; no external hosts are contacted.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. Test-only changes carry no user-facing risk; the review focus is on whether the refactor introduces flakiness or weakens coverage. Coverage is strictly tightened: the old ranFiles() only checked that named files appeared as substrings, so an extra test file running would go unnoticed; summarize() now pins the exact sorted file list and the N/M test files count. The --watch block's new deadline (0.8× the file timeout) means a hung watcher rejects with buffered output rather than the outer test timing out with no diagnostic, and await using proc still runs to kill the child. The summary regex requires a trailing \n after the Ran ... line, so partial-line reads can't split a run early. File headers are sorted before comparison, which handles the cross-filesystem directory-order note in the PR description.

Other factors

No CODEOWNERS entry covers this path. My earlier optional inline comment (git error message localization) was addressed by adding LC_ALL: "C" to gitEnv. The most recent commit further hardened the env against a developer's ~/.config/git/ignore hiding the node_modules fixture and against foreground git maintenance on Windows — both plausible sources of CI/local divergence. The change follows the repo's test conventions closely (async Bun.spawn with await using, tempDir from harness, normalizeBunSnapshot, test.each, describe.concurrent, stderr asserted before exitCode), and the author reports 6 passing local runs plus 4 each on Windows x64 and aarch64. There are no outstanding third-party CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews.