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Problem

  • With the isolated linker and a cold cache, bun install never exits when a git dependency is the peer of a package that sorts before it. A git overrides entry or a differently spelled bun.lock URL does the same.
  • The waiter on the clone was a dependency (PackageManagerEnqueue.rs:328). When the clone ended, the isolated linker resolved it again (runTasks.rs:1465). For a's peer b: "*" no checkout started.
  • A patched git dependency under an alias can hit panic: Package not found.

Fix

  • The waiter is TaskCallbackContext::GitCheckout { dependency_id, package_id }. Both linkers start that package's checkout when the clone ends. The isolated linker fails each waiter when the clone fails.
  • enqueue_git_checkout gets the package to patch from its caller. Removed: pinned in the resolver's git arm, GitCloneRequest.res, the clone-failure fallback.
  • Verified: test/cli/install/bun-install-git-deps.test.ts, 8 new tests. Without the fix 6 time out and 2 panic.
  • Self-reviewed: 10 concerns raised, 7 addressed. The 3 rejected are in Notes.

Background

  • A git package needs a bare clone of its repository, then a checkout of its commit. Its packages share that clone through task_queue.
  • The isolated linker installs a package once and keeps the first dependency its walk reaches.
  • Considered the hoisted branch for both linkers: it reads the package from the dependency, here the registry's b, so the hang stays.

Downsides

  • None found for installs that finish no git clone: 0 calls into the changed code, the waiter stays 32 bytes, release text is 1,024 bytes smaller.
  • Cold hoisted installs run the same git commands.
Notes

Repro (offline, from the report): a workspace member depends on b = git+file://.../b.git#main and on registry package a@1.0.0 with peerDependencies: { "b": "*" }. The name b is on the registry too. Run bun install, remove node_modules and the cache, and run bun install again. The second install exits 124 under timeout 10 on main 4b02e1031d. It exits 0 with --linker hoisted or when a is named z. bun.lock resolves a's peer to the registry b (a/b), and the isolated store links a to the workspace's git b.

Why the hoisted branch is not enough. It starts the checkout of resolutions[dep_id]. For the store entry of the git b, dep_id is a's peer dependency, and resolutions[dep_id] is the registry b. An optional peer has no resolution at all.

The panic. A patch is applied right after the checkout when the repository was cloned earlier in the same process. The package to patch was looked up by the name of the dependency. Repro: a patched git dependency under an alias, bun.lock, an empty cache, and a second package of the same repository that the install must resolve first. The second package can come from bun add <url> or from an edit of package.json followed by a plain bun install. Both exit 134 without the fix and exit 0 here with the patch applied. Without the alias, without the patch, or with no new package to resolve, the install exits 0 before and after. bun add was checked by script with both linkers. The tests use the default linker.

Measurements (release builds of the merge base 4b02e1031d and of this branch, linux-x64):

  • release binary: run_tasks_erased 32,775 B (was 33,102), enqueue_git_for_checkout 1,736 B (was 1,621), enqueue_git_checkout 1,470 B (was 1,850), enqueue_git_clone 1,034 B (was 1,100), enqueue_dependency_with_main_and_success_fn 20,011 B (was 20,298), text delta -1,024 B (80,678,993 to 80,677,969, llvm-size)
  • size_of::<TaskCallbackContext>(): 32 -> 32 bytes (const assert, bun run rust:check-all: 12 ok of 12)
  • cold install from bun.lock (gdb hit counts on bun-profile): resolver entries per clone waiter 1 -> 0 (isolated), dedupe probes hoisted 3 -> 3
  • warm install: calls into changed code 0 (was 0). build_store 25,025 B (was 25,025)
  • offline matrix: 8 of 8 isolated hang shapes released (were exit 124), clone-failure shape 124 -> 1 with both packages named, git children of the peer shape 1/1/1 (bare clone / clone / checkout, was 1/0/0), hoisted unchanged: 1/1/1
  • pinned: 0 hits of its branch in 15 scenarios before deletion. Measured with gdb on the debug build with the typed waiter: cold installs with both linkers, bun add of a registry package and of another branch of the same repository, bare and named bun update after the branch moved, bun install after the branch moved, fresh installs of the peer shapes. A second context of one dependency row can still reach that position with a resolved row (an overrides or catalog entry to a git URL whose package has another name). The commit then comes from git_commits, which holds the same SHA, so the result is the same with and without pinned.
  • tests: 8 new, 8 fail without the fix (6 by timeout, 2 by the panic), all pass with it

The 8 shapes: workspace peer (install, --frozen-lockfile), the same with the bare clone still cached, root package with a required peer, root package with an optional peer, an npm-range dependency that bun.lock binds to a git package, a URL spelled differently in bun.lock, two commits of one repository with the peer-bound one. Also released, outside the count: the overrides shape (test) and the scp-form repro of #37156 (script).

Suites run with the debug build: bun-install-git-deps (17 pass), isolated-install (85), bun-install-offline (10), bun-patch (37), bun-install-patch (31).

Self-review. Four independent read-throughs of the diff: the clone waiter flows, the removal of pinned, the patch lookup, the tests. None found a defect in the change. They raised 10 concerns.

Addressed:

  • The comment of the override test gave the wrong mechanism. It now says that the resolver found the package of the pinned commit already loaded.
  • A comment of an older test described the re-enqueue in the present tense.
  • The URL spelling test now asserts that the locked URL differs from the dependency's URL.
  • The alias test branched on its title string. It now takes a flag.
  • The comment of the workspace helper said that every workspace gets the isolated linker. Only a new one does.
  • The body called pinned dead. It can still be reached, and it changes no result (see Measurements).
  • The new tests set a 30 s timeout each. They now use the default: each case takes 0.6 to 0.8 s on a debug build, and the explicit value lowered the limit that the CI runner sets.

Rejected:

  • Delete the unused dependency and patch parameters of enqueue_git_clone now. They were unused before this change, and the design review kept them out.
  • Add isolated-linker variants of the alias tests. Both linkers share the panic site, and a script checked both.
  • Add a comment for needs_ctx. The variable and its two guards are not part of this change.

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Left for later

  • enqueue_git_clone still has a dependency and a patch parameter that no caller uses.
  • The store entry's dependency also decides the file: tarball base directory, the optional flag of lifecycle scripts, and whether a failed download is required (install: fail when an optional and a required dependency share a failed download #43197).
  • The resolver binds a's peer to the registry b, and the isolated linker binds it to the git b.
  • The resolve-phase GitCheckout arm writes version.value.git without a check of the tag (runTasks.rs:1593). A dependency that overrides redirects to a git URL keeps its npm tag.

Credit: #15810 set the rule for the hoisted linker (use what was enqueued, not the dependency).


no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/install/bun-install-git-deps.test.ts

The install phase parks a waiter on the clone of a git repository that is
not in the cache. The waiter was a dependency, and when the clone ended the
checkout was derived from it: the hoisted linker read the package the
dependency resolves to, the isolated linker sent the dependency through the
resolver again. The isolated linker keeps one dependency per store entry,
and that one can be a peer dependency, or a dependency that an override
redirects. Neither is a git dependency, and a peer dependency can resolve
to another package. No checkout started for the entry and the install never
exited.

The waiter is now TaskCallbackContext::GitCheckout with the package id.
Both linkers start, or fail, the checkout of that package when the clone
ends.
enqueue_git_checkout looked up the package to patch by the name of the
dependency. An alias does not share its name with the package, so the
lookup found nothing: panic: Package not found. When two packages share a
name, it took the first one.

enqueue_git_for_checkout now passes the package id with the patch hash.
It existed for the isolated linker, which sent a resolved dependency
through the resolver again when a clone ended. The linker no longer does
that, and no resolve-phase caller reaches the arm with a resolved git
dependency.
…om the dependency

The isolated linker cloned the repository a second time, under the
dependency's spelling, and left the package waiting. The typed clone waiter
starts the checkout of the package in bun.lock.
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Reproduction

The hang reproduces offline with the script below. It needs bun, node, git, tar and timeout.

build ./git-peer-hang.sh a ... a --frozen-lockfile ... z ... a --linker hoisted
main 4b02e1031d (release) 124, still running after 10 s 124 0 0
this branch (release) 0 0 0 0

On main the second install runs git clone --bare and no other git command. On this branch it runs 1 bare clone, 1 clone and 1 checkout, the same as the hoisted linker.

git-peer-hang.sh
#!/bin/bash
# BUN=<bun> ./git-peer-hang.sh [name of the package with the peer: a | z] [extra flags for the second install]
# A workspace member depends on b (a git dependency) and on a registry package that has a peer on b.
BUN=${BUN:-bun}; PA=${1:-a}; shift
D=$(mktemp -d); cd $D; export HOME=$D GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=$D/gc NO_COLOR=1 BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR=$D/cache
printf '[user]\n\tname = t\n\temail = t@t\n[init]\n\tdefaultBranch = main\n[protocol "file"]\n\tallow = always\n' > gc
mkdir -p src proj/packages/m reg/$PA/package reg/b/package
(cd src && echo '{"name":"b","version":"1.0.0"}' > package.json && git init -q && git add . && git commit -qm x && git clone -q --bare . ../b.git)
echo "{\"name\":\"$PA\",\"version\":\"1.0.0\",\"peerDependencies\":{\"b\":\"*\"}}" > reg/$PA/package/package.json; tar -czf reg/$PA.tgz -C reg/$PA package
cp src/package.json reg/b/package/; tar -czf reg/b.tgz -C reg/b package   # the name b is on the registry too
cat > reg.cjs <<'JS'
const http = require("http"), fs = require("fs"), crypto = require("crypto");
const s = http.createServer((req, res) => {
  const t = /^\/t\/(\w+)\.tgz$/.exec(req.url), n = req.url.slice(1);
  if (t) return res.end(fs.readFileSync(`reg/${t[1]}.tgz`));
  if (!fs.existsSync(`reg/${n}.tgz`)) { res.writeHead(404); return res.end(); }
  const b = fs.readFileSync(`reg/${n}.tgz`), pj = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(`reg/${n}/package/package.json`));
  res.end(JSON.stringify({ name: n, "dist-tags": { latest: "1.0.0" }, versions: { "1.0.0": { ...pj, dist: { tarball: `http://127.0.0.1:${s.address().port}/t/${n}.tgz`, integrity: "sha512-" + crypto.createHash("sha512").update(b).digest("base64") } } } }));
}).listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => fs.writeFileSync("port", String(s.address().port)));
JS
node reg.cjs & R=$!; while [ ! -s port ]; do sleep 0.05; done
export BUN_CONFIG_REGISTRY=http://127.0.0.1:$(cat port)/; cd proj
echo '{"name":"app","workspaces":["packages/*"]}' > package.json
echo "{\"name\":\"m\",\"version\":\"1.0.0\",\"dependencies\":{\"$PA\":\"1.0.0\",\"b\":\"git+file://$D/b.git#main\"}}" > packages/m/package.json
$BUN install > ../first.txt 2>&1; echo "first install, no lockfile: exit status $?"
rm -rf node_modules packages/m/node_modules $D/cache          # a fresh clone in CI: bun.lock is there, nothing else
timeout 10 $BUN install "$@" > ../second.txt 2>&1; echo "second install, bun.lock + an empty cache: exit status $?"
kill $R; cd /; rm -rf $D

… adds another package of its repository

A plain bun install hits the same panic as bun add: the resolve phase
clones the repository for the new dependency, and the patched package then
takes the checkout that applies the patch.
Comment thread src/install/PackageManager/runTasks.rs Resolved
Comment thread src/install/PackageManager/runTasks.rs Resolved
Comment thread src/install/lib.rs Resolved
The override test said the dependency was no git dependency. The install
hung because the resolver found the package of the pinned commit already
loaded. Also guard the URL spelling test against a replace that matches
nothing.
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Updated 12:28 AM PT - Oct 3rd, 2026

@robobun, your commit e1a7d18 is building: #123215

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Git dependency checkout enqueueing now uses package IDs to obtain lockfile resolutions and patch metadata. Clone callbacks carry package and dependency IDs, and clone completion handles checkout waiters. New tests cover peer dependencies, overrides, frozen installs, unavailable repositories, and aliased-package patches.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve and enqueue Git checkouts
src/install/PackageInstaller.rs, src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerEnqueue.rs, src/install/isolated_install.rs, test/cli/install/bun-install-git-deps.test.ts
Checkout enqueueing now accepts a package ID and reads its resolution from the lockfile. Existing-clone installs resolve the committish through a Git commit task. Patch metadata is associated with the package ID. Tests cover lockfile URL spelling and patches applied to aliased packages.
Handle clone checkout waiters
src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerEnqueue.rs, src/install/PackageManager/processDependencyList.rs, src/install/PackageManager/runTasks.rs, src/install/PackageManagerTask.rs, src/install/lib.rs, test/cli/install/bun-install-git-deps.test.ts
Clone tasks no longer store a resolution. GitCheckout callback contexts carry dependency and package IDs. run_tasks uses each waiter’s package resolution to enqueue checkouts after successful clones and report store download errors after failures. Tests cover peer dependencies, overrides, and cold-cache frozen installs.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e1a7d

The change fixes hangs when installing Git dependencies. The remaining concern is that an already-resolved Git dependency may be checked out at a newer commit than the one in the lockfile if its branch has moved. Confirm whether that path is reachable before merging.

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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 nit, I also checked the removal of the pinned branch in the resolver's git arm (the re-entry after git log reads the same SHA from git_commits, so the checkout id is unchanged), the clone-failure drain in run_tasks (every GitCheckout waiter now gets on_package_download_error_store with its own package's checkout id, replacing the single clone.res fallback), and the .git() reads on items_resolution()[package_id] without a tag check (both call sites only push GitCheckout waiters from enqueue_git_for_checkout, which is reached only for git resolutions). Since the change rewires the clone-waiter and patch-lookup flow for both linkers, a human familiar with the install task queue should still take a look.

Extended reasoning...

The change replaces the dependency-keyed waiter on shared git clone tasks with a typed GitCheckout { dependency_id, package_id } variant across the hoisted and isolated install paths in the bun_install crate, removes the GitCloneRequest.res fallback, and moves the patch target lookup from a name-hash index to an explicit package id; it touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface. The core waiter flows and the dropped-tag-check union reads were traced and look consistent, but the change alters hang/failure semantics in the install loop for both linkers, so a human look is still worthwhile.

Each case runs two installs and takes under a second on a debug build. The
explicit 30 s also lowered the limit that the CI runner sets.

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Thanks for dropping the per-test timeouts in e1a7d18 — that resolves my earlier nit. I re-reviewed the updated branch and found no bugs, but since this reworks the install-phase clone-waiter machinery and deletes two fallbacks (the clone-failure drain's clone.res path and the resolver's pinned branch), a maintainer familiar with src/install should still take a look.

What was reviewed:

  • The GitCheckout waiter end to end: pushed in enqueue_git_for_checkout (PackageManagerEnqueue.rs:329), consumed in both runTasks.rs clone arms; the checkout-id entry still carries the original install context, so the post-clone checkout completes the same entry it did before.
  • The has_on_extract gate relaxation: only HoistedRunTasksCallbacks and StoreRunTasksCallbacks set HAS_ON_EXTRACT = true, so the resolve phase still goes through process_dependency_list, and the new debug_assert there covers a mis-routed GitCheckout waiter.
  • Patch None in the post-clone checkout path (runTasks.rs:1427) — pre-existing, not a regression from the signature change.
  • Other TaskCallbackContext match sites (Installer.rs, PackageInstaller.rs, auto_installer.rs) use let ... else / single-variant matches and are unaffected by the new variant.
Extended reasoning...

The change touches the install-phase git clone/checkout task plumbing in src/install (lib.rs enum, PackageManagerEnqueue.rs, runTasks.rs, processDependencyList.rs, the two linkers' call sites) and adds eight tests to test/cli/install/bun-install-git-deps.test.ts; it touches no auth, crypto, or input-validation surface beyond lockfile-driven package ids. The bug hunt ran dry with no findings and the single commit since the prior review removed the per-test timeouts that review flagged. Deferring rather than approving because the change deletes a fallback in the clone-failure arm and the resolver's pinned-commit branch, both of which are behavior the author justifies by measurement rather than by a compile-time invariant, and the install task queue is core, maintainer-owned logic.

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