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Fixes #19729

Problem

  • bun build src/app.js --sourcemap, with or without --outfile dist/app.js, writes the bundle and its map into src/, over the entry, and exits 0.
  • Cause: with no --outdir, BuildCommand::exec (build_command.rs) wrote two or more files (bundle and map) into dirname(entry_points[0]).

Fix

  • --outfile dir/app.js reaches the bundler as output_dir = dir plus the literal file name app.js (entry_point_file_name, from compile: name the entry point's chunk after the outfile, so other chunks can load it #41264, no placeholders). The bundle, its map, and the map's sources follow dir. The fallback is removed.
  • Bare --sourcemap is linked when files are written and inline on stdout, like esbuild. linked/external to stdout is an error.
  • Verified: 43 rows in test/bundler/cli.test.ts, 21 fail on bun 1.4.3-canary. Self-reviewed: 5 concerns, 5 addressed.

Background

Downsides

  • Breaking: bun build src/x.ts --sourcemap prints the bundle with an inline map. It no longer writes src/x.js and its map. Use --outdir.
  • Breaking: --outfile 'x.[hash].js' with a linked map expanded the name. It is now literal. Use --outdir <dir> --entry-naming 'x.[hash].js'.
  • --outfile: map sources are relative to its directory, debugId changes once, +3 syscalls per build (136 to 139). Release code: -4 bytes.
Notes

Behaviour changes, for the release note (before / after; entry in src/, no --outdir):

  1. bun build src/x.js --sourcemap: wrote src/x.js + src/x.js.map / prints the bundle with an inline map, writes nothing.
  2. bun build src/x.js --sourcemap=linked: same as 1 / exits 1:
    error: cannot use a linked source map without --outdir or --outfile
    note: use --sourcemap=inline to print the source map to stdout
    
    --sourcemap=external printed cannot use an external source map without --outdir and now prints the same two lines with an external.
  3. --outfile dist/js/app.js --sourcemap[=linked]: wrote app.js + app.js.map into src/ / writes them into dist/js/.
  4. --outfile dist/js/app.js --sourcemap=external: error / writes dist/js/app.js (debugId only) + dist/js/app.js.map.
  5. Any map made with --outfile dir/x.js (inline too): sources were relative to the cwd / are relative to dir (../../src/entry.js for dist/js/), as with --outdir.
  6. src/index.html --compile --target=browser --sourcemap: wrote index.html + the chunk map into src/, over the entry / writes them into the cwd.
  7. --outfile 'x.[hash].js' --sourcemap[=linked], and a standalone HTML build with --sourcemap: [name], [hash], [ext], [dir] and [target] in the name were expanded and the files went next to the entry. It was the only --outfile build that expanded them / the name is written as typed, in dirname(outfile), as it always was without a map. For a templated name use --outdir <dir> --entry-naming 'x.[hash].js': for bundle.[hash].js it writes the same file names and the same bytes (cmp) as the old --outfile spelling did. The same change stops cd src && bun build app.js --outfile '[name].js' --sourcemap from replacing app.js with its bundle.
  8. --no-bundle --sourcemap=linked to stdout now gets the error of 2 (--no-bundle emits no map yet, bun build --no-bundle: honor --sourcemap #41939 adds that). The error text for an output directory that cannot be created now comes from the bundler (Failed to create output directory ...).
  9. --outfile / (a path with no file name): failed when the file was written / fails before the build with error: --outfile "/" does not name a file.
  10. --outfile with a second output that takes the entry naming (the CSS of a JS entry, or the page of a --target=bun/--target=node entry that imports an .html file): exit 1 with Multiple files share the same output path and a consider adding '[hash]' note / exit 1 with cannot write multiple output files without an output directory. Nothing is written, before and after. The old text named the two inputs. If that list is wanted back, it can be a note: on the new message.
  11. The debugId of an --outfile build with a source map depended on the outfile name / it changes once and is the same for every name. No other output byte changes. --outdir builds keep their id.
  12. --metafile with --outfile 'dist/[name].js': the outputs key was ./app.js for a file named [name].js / the key is ./[name].js.
  13. --outfile with a linked or external map: the bundle was written first, then the map / the map is written first, as with --outdir. If the map cannot be written, the build fails there and the old bundle stays.

Unchanged: --outfile app.js without a map, --no-bundle --outfile, --compile --outfile dir/app [--sourcemap] (also with [name] in the name), --outdir, --outfile /dev/stdout, the --metafile path (cwd-relative), the executable bit on hashbang bundles, --outfile with an asset import (cannot write multiple output files without an output directory), several entries with --outfile (Must use --outdir), --outfile with --entry-naming (the outfile wins), --outdir with --outfile (the outfile is ignored).

The --outfile name (last commit).

  • The first version of this PR passed the basename to the bundler as entry_naming. So bun build src/app.js --outfile 'dist/[name].js' wrote dist/app.js ([hash].js gave 59f42an9.js, [dir].js gave ..js, [ext].js gave js.js, [target].js gave browser.js), and cd src && bun build app.js --outfile '[name].js' replaced the entry. Main has the same assignment, but for a single output file the CLI renamed the file afterwards.
  • Now BuildCommand::exec sets entry_point_file_name. In compute_chunks the first chunk that takes the entry naming gets the template ./[name] with the name as the placeholder value, and a value is not scanned again. A build that succeeds with --outfile has one such chunk: the JS chunk, the CSS chunk, or the page of a standalone HTML build. --compile keeps its rule for the chunk (the server-side entry point).
  • --no-bundle --outfile was already literal, through a rename in the CLI. Transpiler::transform_only_dest_path now returns the name and the rename is deleted. No test fails without this half. It is in this commit because bun build --no-bundle: honor --sourcemap #41939 adds entry_naming = "./" + basename(outfile) for --no-bundle, and that line would bring the expansion back there.
  • BundleOptions::for_worker does not copy the name. Only the parent transpiler names output files.

Cost measurement, first version. Two debug builds of this branch's tree, A with main's Arguments.rs and build_command.rs, B with this PR's. strace -f -c, file-related syscalls only (open, mkdir, read, write, close, stat, rename, unlink and relatives), a two-module project, 3 runs each, all runs identical:

command A B
bun build src/entry.js (stdout) 129 129
... --outfile app.js 130 133
... --outfile dist/js/app.js 136 139
... --outdir dist 140 140
... --outdir dist --sourcemap=linked 143 143

The 3 extra calls are mkdirat(<outdir>, ".") (EEXIST) from the bundler's writer, and a second openat + close of the output directory from the CLI's summary block. Every --outdir build already makes the same calls. strace is not in the dev image, so 6.12 was built from its release tarball.

Cost measurement, last commit. The head before the commit (571bea5) against the commit, debug builds, GOMAXPROCS=2, 3 runs each, all runs equal. Calls of the Rust allocator entry points, counted with gdb breakpoints (alloc / realloc / free):

command before after
bun build src/app.js (stdout) 3417 / 30 / 2297 3417 / 30 / 2297
... --outdir out 3430 / 30 / 2305 3430 / 30 / 2305
... --outfile dist/plain.js 3432 / 30 / 2307 3430 / 32 / 2304
... --no-bundle --outdir out 1199 / 17 / 138 1199 / 17 / 138
... --no-bundle --outfile dist/app.js 1198 / 17 / 140 1195 / 17 / 136
... --compile --outfile dist/app 3516 / 38 / 2414 3514 / 38 / 2412
  • File syscalls (gdb catch syscall: open, openat, read, write, close, the stat family, readlink, mkdir, access): the same count before and after for the stdout, --outdir, --outfile, --outfile with a linked map and --no-bundle --outfile rows. --outfile 'dist/[dir].js' goes from 116 to 113, because the name no longer asks for the directory of the entry.
  • Type sizes (gdb sizeof): PathTemplate 104 B, Chunk 816 B, BundleOptions 1648 B, before and after.
  • Release builds (linux-x64, LTO), the six src/ files of this PR at the merge base against the PR: 5 functions change size, net -4 bytes (BuildCommand::exec -216, Transpiler::for_worker -146, parse_build_command_options +36, Transpiler::transform +84, compute_chunks +238). The .text section is 80,718,949 bytes and the binary is 106,125,032 bytes in both. bloaty, strace and perf are not in the dev image: size, nm -S and gdb were used.
  • Output of 24 plain-name --outfile builds (a JS, a CSS and a standalone HTML entry; no map, linked, external, inline; with and without --metafile), before and after the commit: 14 are byte-identical. The 6 JS rows with a map differ only in debugId. The 4 HTML rows with a metafile differ only in the key order of the metafile inputs, and that order also differs between two runs of one binary (see Related).

Tests. 43 rows of test/bundler/cli.test.ts: 11 for #19729 and the --sourcemap default, 30 for the name, 2 for the write order (item 13). On bun 1.4.3-canary 21 fail (8, 11 and 2). On this PR before the last commit 23 of the 30 name rows fail. Two debugId pins in bundler_promiseall_deadcode.test.ts moved (item 11). The pin in cyclic-imports-async-bundler.test.js did not.

Suites run on a debug build of this branch with main (6292c65) merged: cli, bundler_naming, bundler_promiseall_deadcode, cyclic-imports-async-bundler, metafile, standalone, bundler_loader, bundler_string, bundler_jsx, bundler_html, bundler_html_server, html-import-manifest, bundler_splitting, bundler_edgecase, esbuild/css, esbuild/default, bun-build-compile-sourcemap, and the entry point naming rows of bundler_compile_splitting. Before the merge also: bundler_minify, bundler_minify_symbol_for, esbuild/metafile, esbuild/loader, regression/issue/09559, 22003, and the sourcemap rows of test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts.

The only failures are rows that need more than the 5 s default timeout with the 1.1 GB debug binary: three --compile rows in cli.test.ts and default/TopLevelAwaitForbiddenRequireSourceMapCLI (40 builds). They time out on a build without this PR's last commit too, and the --compile rows pass with a longer timeout. No row tests --compile --outfile 'dist/[name]', because each such row copies the debug binary. Checked by hand: the name is literal on 1.4.3-canary, before the last commit, and after it.

On the merge 00023af, debug build: cli.test.ts (86 pass, 2 skip), bundler_promiseall_deadcode.test.ts, test/cli/compile/compile-library.test.ts (56 pass; one row needs more than its 60 s in a debug build and passes alone in 44 s), test/cli/check/specifiers-in-declarations.test.ts, test/cli/aot-check-and-build-flags.test.ts, test/cli/aot-unknown-flags.test.ts, test/cli/aot-options-without-effect.test.ts, and the 54 aot::options unit tests of bun_bundler.

Self-review. First version: the --outfile basename reaches the bundler byte-exact, not through a lossy UTF-8 display (addressed). Item 8 was accepted. Last commit, 5 concerns, 5 addressed: item 7 is stated with its replacement and pinned by two rows next to the entry; item 10 is stated for its class and pinned for a server entry that imports a page; --no-bundle --outfile / has a row; the doc comment of the option is one line; #41939 and #42006 have a note about the rebase.

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no test proof · iteration 7 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bundler/cli.test.ts

Without --outdir, a build that produced more than one file (a linked
source map is the usual second file) fell back to dirname(entry) as the
output directory. `bun build src/x.js --sourcemap` wrote the bundle over
src/x.js, and `--outfile dist/app.js --sourcemap` wrote into src/ too.

- Bare `--sourcemap` now means linked when the build writes to disk and
  inline when it prints to stdout, the same rule as
  `Bun.build({ sourcemap: true })` and esbuild.
- `--sourcemap=linked` and `--sourcemap=external` without --outdir or
  --outfile are an error. External already was; it is now allowed with
  --outfile.
- Without --outdir, `--outfile dir/app.js` is handed to the bundler as
  outdir=dir with the entry named app.js, so the bundle, its .map and
  the map's `sources` are all relative to dir.
- The dirname(entry) fallback is removed.

Fixes #19729
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The CLI now selects sourcemap defaults based on the output destination and routes --outfile output to the requested path. The bundler and transpiler use the configured entry-point filename. Documentation and tests cover sourcemap modes, output placement, and literal outfile names.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Sourcemap defaults and validation
src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs, src/runtime/cli/build_command.rs, docs/bundler/*.mdx, test/bundler/cli.test.ts
Valueless --sourcemap selects linked for disk output and inline for stdout. Stdout builds reject linked and external maps. Documentation and tests cover sourcemap modes, output requirements, and map-write failures.
Entry-point filename handling
src/bundler/options.rs, src/bundler/linker_context/computeChunks.rs, src/bundler/transpiler.rs, src/runtime/api/js_bundle_completion_task.rs, src/runtime/cli/build_command.rs
entry_point_file_name replaces compile_entry_point_name. The bundler and transpiler use the configured filename for entry-point output.
Outfile routing and validation
src/runtime/cli/build_command.rs, test/bundler/cli.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_promiseall_deadcode.test.ts
Build setup uses the outfile basename and directory to route output. Tests cover literal outfile names, output placement, error cases, and updated source-map debugId values.

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Issue #19729 requires --outfile=dist/index.js --sourcemap to write the bundle and source map in dist/. parse_build_command_options selects linked maps when --outfile is present. BuildCommand::exec sets the outfile directory as output_dir and passes the literal basename as entry_point_file_name. The CLI tests verify bundle and map placement and verify that the entry files remain unchanged.

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❌ @robobun, your commit 4e01f5e has 40 failures in Build #136458 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

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Status: ready for review. The branch has main merged in (3f3a9ff) and is at 4e01f5e.

Reproduced on bun 1.4.3 (and per the reports 1.3.14 and 1.4.2):

mkdir -p src work && printf 'export function hello(){ return "hello" }\nconsole.log(hello())\n' > src/x.js
cd work
bun build ../src/x.js --sourcemap            # prints a two-file summary, exit 0
ls ../src                                    # x.js x.js.map, and x.js is now the bundle
cd .. && bun build ./src/x.js --outfile dist/x.js --sourcemap
ls dist                                      # No such file or directory; src/x.js was replaced again

With this branch the first command prints the bundle with an inline map and writes nothing, the second writes dist/x.js and dist/x.js.map, and --sourcemap=linked/=external with no output location exit 1 with an error and a note: line. Test: --sourcemap never writes next to the entry point in test/bundler/cli.test.ts (10 rows, 8 fail without the fix).

The earlier head of this branch (571bea5) had a fault of its own. It passed the --outfile name to the bundler as a naming template:

mkdir -p src && echo 'console.log("app")' > src/app.js
bun build src/app.js --outfile 'dist/[name].js' && ls dist    # app.js, not [name].js ([hash].js gave 59f42an9.js)
cd src && bun build app.js --outfile '[name].js'              # replaced app.js with its bundle

828064d takes the name as written. Bun 1.4.3, main and esbuild do the same for these two commands. Test: --outfile takes the file name as written in test/bundler/cli.test.ts (30 rows, 23 fail on 571bea5). The PR description lists what else changes with it (item 7 and items 9 to 12 of the notes).

--outfile with a linked or external map now writes the map before the bundle, as --outdir does. A reader that reloads when the bundle changes (bun --hot) never finds the new bundle beside the map of the build before:

mkdir app.js.map && echo 'OLD BUNDLE' > app.js && echo 'console.log(1)' > entry.js
bun build entry.js --outfile app.js --sourcemap=linked; head -1 app.js
# bun 1.4.3: the bundle is replaced, then the map fails (EISDIR). This branch: the map fails first, app.js is still OLD BUNDLE.

Test: --outfile writes the linked source map before the bundle and its external twin in test/bundler/cli.test.ts (both fail on bun 1.4.3-canary).

The merge of main needed one fix: main's --compile --aot code still used the option's old name compile_entry_point_name in 4 places.

CI on 4e01f5e (build 136458): this PR's own tests pass on every lane, test/bundler/cli.test.ts is not among the failures. The build is red because main is red. 27 of the 28 tests that fail here also fail in main's own build of the merged commit 3f3a9ff (build 136408). They are the ahead-of-time compile suite (test/aot/**) and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. The 28th, test/aot/engine/native-5.test.ts, is an assertion in a JavaScriptCore AOT engine test (AOTPropertyLookupTests.cpp(1511)), in the same native test family as native-6.test.ts, which fails on main.

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes a user-facing default (bare --sourcemap → inline vs linked) and restructures where bun build decides to write files on disk — the very path whose old behavior overwrote source files — a human look at the --outfile → output_dir move and the removed dirname(entry) fallback would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • Arg-parse ordering in Arguments.rs — compile/outdir/outfile are set before --sourcemap is read, so writes_to_disk sees the right values.
  • The moved outfile block now writes this_transpiler.options.output_dir (not ctx.bundler_options.outdir); confirmed opt_output_dir is snapshotted from that field afterward, so the write path and the sources-relative-to-outdir logic both pick it up.
  • Test suite: covers the linked/external/inline/none × stdout/--outfile/--compile matrix, asserts the negative contract (source tree byte-identical), normalizes \ for Windows, drains pipes concurrently.
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Overview

This PR fixes a data-loss-adjacent bug in bun build: when --sourcemap produced a second output file and no --outdir was set, the CLI fell back to dirname(entry_points[0]) as the write root, so the bundle and its .map landed in the user's source directory — overwriting the entry when basenames matched. The fix has three parts: (1) bare --sourcemap now resolves to inline when output goes to stdout and linked only when writing to disk, matching Bun.build({ sourcemap: true }) and esbuild; (2) --outfile dir/app.js is translated into output_dir = dir + entry_naming = ./app.js before the bundler runs (excluding --compile and --no-bundle), so the bundler itself writes the map next to the outfile with correct sources paths; (3) the dirname(entry) fallback in the post-bundle writer is removed outright. Docs and a 9-case concurrent test suite in test/bundler/cli.test.ts ship alongside.

Security risks

None in the traditional sense — no auth, crypto, or untrusted-input parsing. The relevant risk is correctness of file-write destinations: the old code could clobber user source files, and any regression here would do the same. The removed fallback and the earlier output_dir assignment are the load-bearing changes; I traced that opt_output_dir (the snapshot the writer reads) is taken from this_transpiler.options.output_dir after the new block sets it, so the writer sees the outfile's directory rather than empty. The stdout guard now rejects both linked and external before any write can happen.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The diff is not large (~120 net LOC across two Rust files plus tests/docs), but it restructures control flow in BuildCommand::exec — moving a block from after the bundle to before it, and deleting a fallback that other multi-output-without-outdir shapes could conceivably have relied on. The PR description enumerates the unchanged cases (--no-bundle --outfile, --compile --outfile dir/app, --outfile with an asset import, multiple entries, /dev/stdout, --metafile, hashbang exec bit, watch mode), and the author reports running the adjacent test files, but a maintainer who knows this writer's history (issues #8697, #19729, and the two superseded PRs) is better placed to confirm nothing else leaned on the removed root_path = dirname(entry) line.

Other factors

The change also flips a default: bun build src/x.js --sourcemap used to (buggily) write files and now prints an inline map to stdout. That's the correct fix and matches esbuild, but it's a user-visible behavior change worth a maintainer's sign-off. Test quality is high — describe.concurrent, tempDir with using, output asserted before exit code, source tree diffed byte-for-byte after every case, Windows path separators normalized. No CODEOWNERS cover the touched paths, and the timeline shows no prior human review to defer to or block on.

…file rows without a leading .. (Windows mkdir of ../x is a separate bug)
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- Line 51: Update the sourcemap documentation to state that explicit linked and
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#42006 is stacked on this branch. It drops the standalone HTML outfile = basename(entry) default (the page goes to stdout when no --outdir or --outfile is given, so cd src && bun build --compile --target=browser ./index.html no longer replaces the source), moves the linked/external check below the point where that branch clears compile, and flips the a standalone html build with --sourcemap and no --outdir writes to the cwd row here into an error expectation.

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This would fix a real downstream case for us. tosijs-schema's release build (pinned to Bun 1.4.2) builds a subpath entry with --sourcemap=linked --outfile=dist/infer.js. It hits #19729: the output lands in src/, nothing goes to dist/, and the build still exits 0. With --sourcemap=external nothing is written at all (repro in #19729 (comment)). The --outfile × linked / external tests here cover both cases.

We work around it with --outdir=dist, so it isn't blocking us, but we'd like to drop the workaround once this lands. Thanks for the thorough fix.

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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 two things and ruled them out: the bare --sourcemap resolution in src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs reads compile/outdir/outfile that are all parsed earlier in parse_build_command_options, so the writes_to_disk branch is live; and the --no-bundle --outfile dir/x.js write path in build_command.rs is behavior-preserving (a single in-memory file already went to dirname(outfile) before the will_be_one_file gate was dropped), though it has no test anywhere in the suite.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches CLI argument parsing and the build output writer in src/runtime/cli, plus docs and a new test block in test/bundler/cli.test.ts; it touches no security-sensitive surface. Two inline findings are posted (a pre-existing in-place overwrite for standalone HTML builds run from the entry's directory, and an error-message formatting nit); this note only records the additional paths examined and ruled out this run.

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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 that dropping the ctx.bundler_options.outdir mutation does not affect --watch --outfile: rebuilds run inside generate_from_cli on the same transpiler, so the output_dir set at build_command.rs:438 persists across rebuilds. The --compile --outfile dir/app path is unchanged: the new block excludes compile, so its output still stays in memory and lands in dirname(outfile) via the writer at build_command.rs:813-825 as before.

Extended reasoning...

The change reworks bun build source-map defaults and --outfile output-directory handling in src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs and src/runtime/cli/build_command.rs, with docs and a new cli.test.ts block; no security-sensitive surface. Two confirmed inline findings (the --no-bundle --sourcemap=linked stdout regression and the error-wording change for an --outfile parent that is a file) already signal that a human look is needed, so this body only records the watch-mode and --compile paths that were traced and found unaffected.

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`--outfile 'dist/[name].js'` wrote `dist/app.js`. The basename went into
`entry_naming`, which is a path template, so `[name]`, `[hash]`, `[dir]`,
`[ext]` and `[target]` in it were expanded.

The basename now reaches the bundler as `entry_point_file_name`, the option
that `--compile` already used (renamed from `compile_entry_point_name`).
`compute_chunks` gives the one output file the template `./[name]` with the
name as the placeholder value. The `--no-bundle` namer returns the name
directly, so the CLI no longer renames an output file after the build.

- Released Bun expanded the name in one case: `--outfile` with a linked
  source map (the rename was skipped for two outputs, and the files went
  next to the entry). For a templated name, use `--outdir <dir>
  --entry-naming '<name>'`.
- `--outfile /` has no file name. It is an error before the build starts.
- `--outfile` with a second output that takes the entry naming (the CSS of
  a JS entry, or the page of a `--target=bun` or `--target=node` entry that
  imports an `.html` file) still exits 1 and writes nothing. The message is
  now `cannot write multiple output files without an output directory`.
- The debugId of an `--outfile` build with a source map changes once: the
  chunk hash read the file name as its template, and no longer does.

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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 finding, I checked the new entry_point_file_name path added in the latest commits: the takes_entry_naming closure in computeChunks.rs is the old condition verbatim, so the second site is unchanged; Bun.build only sets the name when compile_mode is Executable (standalone HTML clears config.compile first in js_bundle_completion_task.rs), so the non-executable branch is reached only from the CLI --outfile block; sync_resolver_opts() at build_command.rs:550 runs after the new output_dir assignment at line 444, so the linker's root path sees dirname(outfile); and --outdir/--outfile/--compile are parsed before --sourcemap in Arguments.rs, so the bare-flag default sees them.

Extended reasoning...

The change reworks how bun build resolves the output directory and file name for --outfile and bare --sourcemap, touching the CLI argument parser, build_command.rs, the linker's chunk naming, and the transpiler's --no-bundle naming, with no security-sensitive surface. It is a deliberate breaking behavior change in the bundler with one verified finding going unposted, so a human maintainer should weigh the design rather than this review approving it.

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A note for the rebase: #47306 (stacked on #46655) touches the same if in compute_chunks.

#47306 moves the condition that this PR names takes_entry_naming into a module function with that name in src/bundler/linker_context/computeChunks.rs. The duplicate output path report reads it through chunk_named_by, so the note says entry naming or chunk naming by the rule that chose the template. The two branches conflict in one line: if takes_entry_naming(chunk, kinds) { against if takes_entry_naming(chunk) {.

For the PR that lands second:

  • Keep the module function and delete the closure.
  • Keep chunk.flags.insert(chunk::Flags::NAMED_BY_OUTFILE) in the ./[name] arm. With the arm that this PR widens to --outfile, a plain --outfile build then also gets no entry naming is './app.js', consider adding '[hash]' note.

Keeping the closure compiles too, but it leaves two copies of the rule. Neither PR needs to wait for the other.

With --outfile the bundler writes the files itself, map first, as it
does for --outdir. A reader that reloads when the bundle changes
(bun --hot) never finds the new bundle beside the map of the build
before. The rows observe the order through a map path that cannot be
written: the build fails there and the old bundle stays.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

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

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The default of a bare --sourcemap reads three options: --compile,
--outdir and --outfile. The --outdir state had no row.

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