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Problem

• bun test --changed prints --changed: 1 changed file, but no test files are affected and exits 0. A test reaches the changed file. The graph has an HTML import.
• filter keeps one source per path (src/runtime/cli/test/ChangedFilesFilter.rs:225). The scan holds a file once per target.
• import page from "./page.html" points at a stand-in with no import records (src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs:7595).

Fix

• Every source of a changed path starts the walk. Any affected source of a test file selects it.
• Each page import gets an edge to the page. Graph::html_import_pages gives the pair. The linker uses the same lookup.
• Verified: test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts (18 new cases, 14 fail on main). 510 of 510 selection runs are exact (main: 60).
• Self-reviewed: 12 concerns raised, 11 addressed. Not done: issues for two shapes without a PR.

Background

• The --changed scan bundles every test file without the link step. filter walks import records backward from each changed file.
• Server-side code that imports a page gets a browser bundle. A test can serve it.
• Considered one node per path (the first version). It ran tests whose own graph did not change.

Downsides

• Behaviour change: an edit under a page selects every test that reaches its importer. One shape over-selects (Notes).
• Still missed, as on main: five shapes (Notes).
• Without an HTML import, per graph file: one allocation and 48 instructions fewer. filter grows by 2,000 bytes, the stripped binary by 4,096.

Notes

How it was found

No GitHub issue reports this. It was found during a check of #45938. The same result is on 1.3.14, 1.4.0, 1.4.2, 1.4.3 and main.

Reproduction on main

mkdir src
echo 'export const leaf = 1;' > src/changed.ts
printf "import { leaf } from './changed.ts';\nexport const value = leaf;\n" > src/helper.ts
printf "import { value } from './helper.ts';\nconsole.log(value);\n" > src/app.ts
echo '<!doctype html><html><body><script type="module" src="./src/app.ts"></script></body></html>' > index.html
printf "import { test, expect } from 'bun:test';\nimport { value } from './src/helper.ts';\ntest('uses the helper', () => { expect(value).toBe(1); });\n" > a-direct.test.ts
printf "import { test, expect } from 'bun:test';\nimport page from './index.html';\ntest('the page is importable', () => { expect(page).toBeDefined(); });\n" > b-html.test.ts
git init -q -b main && git add -A && git -c user.name=t -c user.email=t@example.com commit -q -m init
echo '// touched' >> src/changed.ts
bun test --changed

• Main prints --changed: 1 changed file, but no test files are affected and exits 0. Some runs select only a-direct.test.ts.
• This branch runs both test files in 30 of 30 runs.

Why a page edit must select the test that imports the page

• A test imports server.ts, which has import page from "./page.html". The test serves the page with Bun.serve({ routes: { "/": page } }). It fetches the script and asserts on its text.
• After an edit of a file that only the page script imports, plain bun test fails (Expected to contain: "MARKER_ONE"). On main bun test --changed selects nothing and exits 0.
• --changed --watch already watches the page and its scripts, because the scan lists them. On main the edit restarts the run and the run selects nothing.

What the scan holds for import page from "./page.html"

• A stand-in source for the importer's target. It has the page's path, a lazy export of a placeholder string, and no import records. The importing record points at it (generate_server_html_module). The bundler lists each stand-in in graph.html_imports.
• The page itself, in the browser graph. Its scripts, stylesheets and assets hang from it. Each file they import is a browser-target source, also when a test already imports that file for the bun target.
• The bundler links the two in process_html_import_files (src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs:730): it looks up the stand-in's path in the browser path map. The scan stops before the link step.
• The bundler also binds a with { type: "text" } import of that file to the stand-in. That needs the stand-in to be there first.

The change

• The per-source loop of filter already hashes every path for path_to_index. It now looks the path up first. A hit means the file is already in the graph. The loop records the pair (first source, this source) and continues. A miss inserts the index.
• After the changed files mark the first source of their path, each recorded pair marks the later source too. So every source of a changed file starts the walk, with no second pass over all sources.
• Graph::html_import_page is the lookup from a stand-in to its page. process_html_import_files now calls it through the safe parse_graph() accessor, and Graph::html_import_pages iterates the pairs for filter. The join exists once.
• For each pair, filter looks at the importers of the stand-in. An importer with a page import among its records to the stand-in gets a reverse edge from the page. A page import is a record with the HTML loader or with a script loader. A CommonJS file that re-exports the page gives its importers a script loader. A record with another loader, such as with { type: "text" }, "file" or "dataurl", reads only the file.
• After the walk, an affected later source marks the first source of its path. A test file maps to the first source of its path. So any affected source of a test file selects it, and the selection is never smaller than on main.
• module_graph_files, the list that seeds the watcher, now holds each path once.
• The keys are the &'static [u8] of Source.path, stored with put_static_key_hashed. DirEntry::add_entry in src/resolver/fs.rs uses the same three calls. The map is dropped before the bundle is torn down.

Designs that this PR had before

• The first pushed version joined every pair of sources that share a path. It was smaller, and it selected tests for files outside their own graph. The rows src/dep.ts and src/leaf.ts of the new table pin the difference.
• A second version found the page by its loader among the sources of a path. It linked a text source of the same path to the page. It also mapped a test file to its first source only. Three of the new cases fail on it.
• Implement bun test --changed #29262 has the one statement of a maintainer on selection. A test reruns only when a file in its graph changed.
• The page edge can be split from the rest. Without it the walk from every source is still exact for files that a test imports.

Selection per edit

5 fixtures, 17 single-file edits, 30 runs each, release builds of main 5c6d4e2 and of this branch.

	exact set
main	60 of 510 runs
this branch	510 of 510 runs

The two edits that main gets right are edits of the module that imports the page.

Four more checks compare the selection with what a test can load, over random projects. The projects have modules, stylesheets, assets, pages with a script, page scripts that import pages, server modules and tests. They also have text imports of modules and pages.

	exact set
main	65 of 160 edits, 95 miss a test
this branch, release build	1,860 of 1,860 edits

Each clause is pinned

Four builds with one clause changed, run against the new cases:

• No mark of the later sources: 4 cases fail.
• No mark of the first source after the walk: the case with a test file that a page loads fails.
• Every record on the stand-in counts as a page import: the reader case fails.
• Only a record with the HTML loader counts as a page import: the CommonJS case fails.

The reader case depends on which import the bundler resolves first. It runs the command again until the usual order happens, so it always meets the clause. The CommonJS case asserts a set that holds in both orders.

Cost without an HTML import

Fixture: one test file that imports 1,000 local modules, 1 changed module, 1,002 sources. The counts are for the part of filter that runs after the scan returns. A ptrace single-step counter on the main thread took them, 3 runs for each binary.

	main	this branch
instructions outside the allocator	491,376	443,553
heap allocations	3,008	2,007
frees	6,021	5,020
instructions, allocator included	695,940 to 720,666	600,988 to 601,016

• The first three rows are the same in all 3 runs. The last row changes with the state of the heap.
• filter: 8,239 to 10,239 bytes (nm -S). Release text: 107,661,972 to 107,664,276 bytes (size). Stripped binary: 107,808,480 to 107,812,576 bytes.
• bun build does the same lookup as before for each HTML import, now through the helper. Two bundler suites pass (below).

Cost with an HTML import

Fullstack fixture: 1 page, 3 files that a test and the page script both import. Debug build, gdb breakpoint counts: 13 file sources, 4 repeated paths, 1 page edge. module_graph_files goes from 13 to 9 entries.

One shape that over-selects

• A page script reads another file with { type: "text" } or "file". The browser graph also holds that file as a page or as a module. The bundler binds the text import to that source. The walk then follows the text import like a module import.
• Example: r.html has a script that reads b.html as text. A second test imports b.html as a page. An edit of the script of b.html runs the test of r.html too (20 of 20 runs).
• On main the same binding exists for server-side code. Main does not reach a test through a page, so it did not show there.
• A general rule would fix it: follow an import with a data loader only from the changed file itself. That rule also changes server-side imports that main follows today, so it is not in this PR.

Still missed after this change, same as main

Shape	On this branch	Open PR
One .html file that is imported as a page and with { type: "text" }, and the text import resolves first	The page does not enter the scan. A page-script edit selects nothing: always when one file has both imports with the text import first, 11 of 20 runs with two test files (main: 20 of 20)	#41834
A file whose only statement is module.exports = require("./impl.cjs")	After an edit of the file, a test is skipped in 23 of 40 runs, on both builds	#45830
A require() under if (process.browser) in a page script	The served bundle has the file. The scan does not. Nothing selected in 5 of 5 runs	#46548
A file that only the output of a [serve.static] plugin imports	The scan does not run the plugin. Nothing selected in 5 of 5 runs	none
A test file that is a symbolic link	The scan names the file by its real path, so the graph never selects it	none

• The first four are decided by what the scan holds. The last one is in the test-file lookup of filter, and it needs no HTML import.
• The first row has a test case that asserts today's output for one file with both imports. bundler: key modules by (path, loader) so one file under two import attributes is two modules #41834 has to change that case.
• A page script that imports a test file gives that test file a second source. The test then also runs for an edit that only the page's copy reaches. Main does the same.
• --shard takes its slice after the selection, in each job. When two jobs select different sets, a test can be in no slice. On main a file that a test and a page both import can do that. After this change only the first two rows can.
• No docs page describes --changed yet. docs: document bun test --changed on the test runner page #43836 adds one, and these limits belong there.
• Other scan gaps are the same on both builds and have open PRs. bundler: turn automatic barrel mode off for --ignore-dce-annotations and for the bun test --changed scan #45938: a barrel re-export that nothing uses. Make --no-macros a switch of the process #45937: a macro import. test --changed: follow bare specifiers that resolve to local files #44836: bare specifiers, # imports and the browser map of package.json.

A site with the same assumption that this PR leaves alone

bun build --metafile also keys by path. For a server build with an HTML import it writes a path twice under inputs. The fullstack fixture gets 8 entries for 6 files, on main and on this branch. That is another command with another output, so it is not changed here.

Other open work on the same lines

• bundler: turn automatic barrel mode off for --ignore-dce-annotations and for the bun test --changed scan #45938 (last commit), bundler: key modules by (path, loader) so one file under two import attributes is two modules #41834 and bundler: resolve imports that end in a ?query #42491 each start the walk from every source of a changed path. They do it with a second pass over all sources, in the loop that this PR changes. Each conflicts with this PR in ChangedFilesFilter.rs. This change does the same without the second pass, so those hunks are not needed. The simplest order is this PR first.
• test(test-changed): copy one committed repo per case and pin the selected files #41030 merges with this PR without a conflict, but it replaces ranFiles and makes initRepo async. The new cases here use both, so whichever lands second has to port them.
• test --changed: follow bare specifiers that resolve to local files #44836 conflicts with this PR in test-changed.test.ts.

Suites run

• test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts with the debug build: 39 pass. With a release build of main: 25 pass, 14 of the 18 new cases fail. The other 4 are 3 controls and the case that asserts today's output for the text-first page.
• test/bundler/html-import-manifest.test.ts and test/bundler/bundler_html_server.test.ts with the debug build, for the linker change: 14 pass.

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How to reproduce on main

mkdir src
echo 'export const leaf = 1;' > src/changed.ts
printf "import { leaf } from './changed.ts';\nexport const value = leaf;\n" > src/helper.ts
printf "import { value } from './helper.ts';\nconsole.log(value);\n" > src/app.ts
echo '<!doctype html><html><body><script type="module" src="./src/app.ts"></script></body></html>' > index.html
printf "import { test, expect } from 'bun:test';\nimport { value } from './src/helper.ts';\ntest('uses the helper', () => { expect(value).toBe(1); });\n" > a-direct.test.ts
printf "import { test, expect } from 'bun:test';\nimport page from './index.html';\ntest('the page is importable', () => { expect(page).toBeDefined(); });\n" > b-html.test.ts
git init -q -b main && git add -A && git -c user.name=t -c user.email=t@example.com commit -q -m init
echo '// touched' >> src/changed.ts
bun test --changed

• Main and 1.4.3 print --changed: 1 changed file, but no test files are affected and exit 0.
• This branch runs a-direct.test.ts and b-html.test.ts.

The page half: a test imports a module that has import page from "./page.html", serves the page with Bun.serve, and asserts on the text of the bundled script. After an edit of a file that only the page script imports, plain bun test fails. On main bun test --changed selects nothing and exits 0. This branch selects the test.

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Walkthrough

Changed-file tracking now follows eligible HTML imports to their pages and accounts for duplicate graph sources with the same path. Tests cover HTML dependency selection and watch-mode reruns.

Changes

Changed-file dependency tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
HTML import page lookup src/bundler/Graph.rs, src/bundler/LinkerContext.rs	The graph provides lookups from HTML import stand-ins to matching pages. The linker uses this lookup when processing HTML imports.
Changed-file source and HTML traversal src/runtime/cli/test/ChangedFilesFilter.rs	The path index keeps the first source for each path and tracks duplicates. Reverse-import traversal links eligible HTML stand-ins to pages and propagates affected state across duplicate sources.
HTML dependency selection and watch coverage test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts	Tests cover HTML page dependencies, import forms, shared and unrelated files, text imports, and watch-mode reruns.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#45938: Both PRs change duplicate-source handling in ChangedFilesFilter.rs and add test-changed.test.ts coverage for the --changed behavior.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ea4e9

The HTML selection test can fail because of import timing rather than a regression. Make its setup deterministic; the new watch test does not retain the previously reported timeout issue.

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

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the borrowed &'static [u8] keys in path_to_index (src/runtime/cli/test/ChangedFilesFilter.rs:212-230): the map's last read is the changed-file seeding at :265 and drop(path_to_index) at :274 runs before bundle.deinit_without_freeing_arena() at :312, so no key outlives the path bytes it borrows.

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The change rewires the per-source loop of the bun test --changed filter to join sources sharing a path via the reverse-import graph and adds a test matrix; it touches no auth, crypto, or untrusted-input parsing surface. The inline findings cover the selection-rule decision and the test gaps; the borrowed-key lifetime was verified safe from the drop ordering in the function.

[claude]

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

The new push addresses both points from the earlier round: the walk now seeds every copy of a changed path and back-propagates only for test-file selection instead of joining all copies, and the text-first page case asserts the observed empty selection instead of test.failing. Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the drop(path_to_index) placement in src/runtime/cli/test/ChangedFilesFilter.rs (every lookup, including the test-file slot mapping, happens before it) and the LinkerContext refactor (same browser path-map lookup and the same panic on a missing page).

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the --changed reverse-import walk in src/runtime/cli/test/ChangedFilesFilter.rs, adds two Graph helpers in src/bundler/Graph.rs, and routes the existing LinkerContext HTML-import lookup through one of them; no security-sensitive surface is involved. Three inline findings remain open (the Text/File loader exclusion misses base64/dataurl, the exclusion lacks a deterministic test, and a pre-existing CommonJS shim gap), and the hunt stopped on its bug cap, so a human should weigh the selection-rule design rather than this run approving.

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