[robobun]

Fixes #42969, fixes #46051, fixes #44531

Problem

• bun test -u -t one deletes every other entry of a Bun-format .snap file. test.skip, test.only and early throws do too.
• Cause: under -u, Snapshots::format_of (src/runtime/test_runner/snapshot.rs) does not read such a file, and remove_obsolete skips it.
• The first matcher opens the .snap for writing: a read-only file fails the test, a CI refusal leaves an empty file.

Fix

• Every run parses the file. In every format the entry map is the only state, remove_obsolete the only remover.
• One writer prints from the map after the tests, by path, without O_TRUNC. Bun-format files keep their order.
• The keep rule gains todos with bodies, test.failing, hooks, --rerun-each.
• Verified: new-snapshot.test.ts, snapshot.test.ts, bun-snapshots.test.ts, describe.test.ts. 153 of 243 new tests fail on main. Self-reviewed: 121 concerns raised, 107 addressed, 14 not (reasons in Notes).

Background

• A .snap file's first line names its format: Bun, Jest or Vitest.
• bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 (unreleased) gave Jest and Vitest files the keep rule: -u removes only entries with no test.
• Replaces bun test: update the .snap file in place under --update-snapshots #43043, a byte-range editor with a second keep rule.

Downsides

• -u keeps the entries of tests that didn't run. To start over, delete the file.
• -u parses a Bun-format file: +2,888 instructions per stored entry. A .snap write: 1 or 2 more syscalls and a second open that can fail. Binary: +2,816 bytes.
• A -u run that leaves a test out refuses a .snap that doesn't parse, in all three formats. Jest replaces it, Vitest 5 never does (table in Notes).

Notes

What a run does to a file in Bun's format now.

run	before	now
every entry matches, with or without -u	opens the file and writes all of it again	does not open the file for writing
a run adds entries and changes none, with or without -u	writes the whole file (-u: this run's entries only, in run order)	writes the new entries behind the text that it loaded, also when that text has no entry yet
the same, and the length of the file changed while the tests ran	writes the text that it loaded and the new entries	prints the file from its entries. The changes of the other writer are lost, as before, and so are comments, which main kept
-u changes or removes an entry	writes this run's entries in run order	prints the file from its entries, in the order of the file
-u, a test did not run to the end	its entries are deleted	its entries stay
CI refuses a new snapshot and there is no file	makes __snapshots__ and a file with one line	makes nothing
the file is read-only and every entry matches	the test fails (Failed to open snapshot file)	the test passes, with -u too
the file is renamed over or removed after the run's first change to it	the new entries go to the old file and are lost	the run writes the file that has the path after the tests

How the writer works.

• The first change of a run to a file checks that the file can be opened for writing (open with O_CREAT, then close). If not, the test that makes the change fails, and that file keeps all its entries in that run.
• After the tests the writer opens the file again by path. Main does the same for Jest and Vitest files. For a Bun-format file main held the descriptor from the first matcher on, so a file that was renamed over or removed in between lost the new entries.
• open tries the file first. Only if the file or a directory above it is not there, it makes the directories and opens again, as Jest and Vitest do. The cache of the last __snapshots__ directory is gone. It was wrong after something removed the directory.
• A run that only adds entries to a Bun-format file writes them at the length that it loaded, but only if fstat says the file still has that length. If not, it prints the whole file. Both ways end with a truncate behind the text that was written, so the text of another run that got there in between leaves no tail. So two runs of one test file at the same time leave each key once, as on main. A change by another writer that keeps the length of the file is not seen: the new entries go behind it.
• The write is in place (pwrite, then ftruncate for a whole-file print). It is not atomic, on main and here (Make concurrent bun test and bun install processes safe on shared files #39689 has a write through a temporary file).

Decisions.

• Order. A Bun-format file keeps the order of its entries, and new keys go at the end, where a run without -u always put them. bun test --update-snapshots rewrites the .snap file in execution order, reordering unchanged entries #42969 asks for this or for sorted keys. A sort, as Jest does on every save, would reorder 31 of the 45 in-tree Bun-format files that have two or more entries, for every user on the first -u after an upgrade. The cost of the end: the entry of a renamed test moves to the end, and two branches that each add a snapshot conflict in git at the end of the file.
• A todo with a body keeps its entries. Only --todo runs the body, so another run cannot tell what it asks for. A todo with no body takes no snapshot: its entry goes, also when test.only leaves the todo out, and it does not count as a test that did not run.
• test.failing and test.fails keep their entries. They pass when they throw, and the throw can be before the snapshot line. Jest 30.5.2 keeps them too: for a Jest-format file with a test.failing that throws, a skipped test and an unused entry, bun test -u writes the same bytes as jest -u.
• A Vitest-format file is the exception to the two rules above. There a todo, and a test.fails or test.failing that passes, count as tests that ran, so -u removes their unused entries, as on main. Vitest 5.1.0 removes the entries of a todo and of a test.fails that throws too: vitest run -u prints 2 removed, and CI=true vitest run fails on a file that still has them. One cell is new against main: a todo that test.only leaves out now loses its entry in a Vitest-format file, as in Vitest. This is not all of Vitest's rule. Vitest also removes the unused entry of a failed test, and Bun keeps it (the rule of bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833).
• A test that -t leaves out has no callback. has_body now records that it was written with one, so a test with a body in a describe.todo keeps its entry under -u -t in Bun's and Jest's formats.
• The key of a snapshot that a hook takes has (unnamed) where the name of a test is. These entries stay unless every test of the file ran to the end and every beforeAll and afterAll hook passed. A run that leaves a test out does not remove an unused entry of a hook. With -t or test.only, the hooks of a scope that runs no test do not run, so such a run keeps these entries too.
• A describe() callback that throws does not register the tests after the throw. The run removes nothing, and neither does a later run of that file in the same process.
• The keep marks add up over the runs of a file in one process (--rerun-each, the same file listed twice). A later run can register fewer tests, because the modules that the file imports are in the module cache. A later run is a repeat of --rerun-each, or without --isolate a test file that runs a second time (it is listed twice, or a symlink leads to it). A .snap file that is loaded in a later run keeps all its entries. That covers a reload after another test file loaded its snapshots (bun test -u --rerun-each=2 a b a), a first run that took no snapshot, and a preload hook that takes the only snapshot of the later run. With --isolate, a test file that runs again registers every test, so that run removes unused entries as a first run does.
• A Jest or Vitest file can hold entries that an older Bun wrote with its own keys. The rule now knows those keys too. Before, -u removed such an entry of a skipped test from a Vitest file.
• A .snap file that does not parse, and a run that takes no snapshot from the .snap, have their own sections below.
• A .snap file is parsed with macros off (the two lines of bun test: parse a .snap file with macros disabled #46956). On main a macro call in a .snap file aborts a plain run, and the parse that -u now does would abort too. Such a file is now one that does not parse, and the macro does not run.
• Counts under -u for .snap entries: an unchanged entry counts as passed, a changed or new one as added. A key counts as added once when a retry or a second run writes it again, and it counts when an earlier attempt matched the file first. An inline snapshot that -u rewrites still counts as passed (not changed here). A snapshot that is not written, because its file was left as it is, is in none of the three counts. If all three are 0 and no test called expect(), the summary has no snapshots: line.
• A Jest- or Vitest-format file with no entry left is removed, as on main. That needs write access to the directory, not to the file, as in Jest and Vitest. A Bun-format file is never removed: see the section on a run that takes no snapshot from the .snap.
• When -u removes entries and no test changed the file, it checks after the tests of that test file that the file can be opened (or removes it), before it takes the entries out of its map. If that fails, it prints the errno and the path of the .snap under the test file, counts one error, and the run exits 1, with --parallel too. Example: EACCES: Permission denied: Failed to remove the entries that no test uses from "__snapshots__/a.test.js.snap" (open).
• No test has this error or the error for a file that does not parse. With --reporter=junit, the report has each of them as a failed test case (unhandled error) of the test file, from a --parallel worker too. It has an unhandled error between tests the same way (record_unhandled_error).
• -u on a read-only file whose entries all match passes. bun test: open the .snap file for write only when a snapshot is added #46293 pinned the opposite (--update-snapshots still needs write access). A run that changes nothing needs no write access.
• --rerun-each and retries under -u keep the value of the last run, as main's test a test that runs again replaces what its earlier attempt wrote requires.
• node:test is not a reference here: its snapshot() is not implemented in Bun (src/js/node/test.ts).

A .snap file that does not parse (for example one with the conflict markers of a merge).

A plain run fails every test that asks the file for a snapshot and leaves the file, as before. With -u, one rule holds for the three formats:

• A run of every test and hook of the test file to the end replaces the file, in the format that its first line names.
• Every other -u run leaves the file. If the run took a snapshot from it, the run prints error: --update-snapshots left "<path of the .snap>" as it is: the file doesn't parse and two note: lines, does not count the snapshot as added, and exits 1. That is a run with a filter, and a run in which a test is skipped, fails, is test.failing or is a todo with a body.
• The second note says how to start the file over: delete it for a Bun-format file, delete everything below its first line for the other two. No new file is in Jest's format, so a deleted Jest-format file comes back in Bun's format, and jest --ci then fails with Outdated snapshot: No snapshot header found. The docs say the same.
• A run of every test that asks the file for no snapshot (only inline or file snapshots) follows the next section: a Bun-format file stays as it is, with no error, and a Jest- or Vitest-format file is removed.
• With -u, toMatchFileSnapshot() passes beside such a file. Without -u it fails, as on main.

-u runs on one fixture (tests alpha and beta, a stored alpha 1, conflict markers around beta 1). I ran every cell.

	every test runs	-t alpha	one test, inline snapshot only
this PR, Bun format	replaced, exit 0	error, file kept, exit 1	kept
this PR, Jest or Vitest format	replaced in its format, exit 0	error, file kept, exit 1	removed
main 2596ac5, Bun format	replaced	replaced, beta 1 lost	kept
main 2596ac5, Jest or Vitest format	both tests fail, file kept	the test fails, file kept	kept
1.4.4, any first line	replaced by a Bun-format file	replaced by a Bun-format file, beta 1 lost	kept
Jest 30.5.2	replaced	replaced, beta 1 lost	removed
Vitest 4.1.9	replaced	replaced, beta 1 lost	removed
Vitest 5.1.0	error, file kept	error, file kept	error, file kept

The rule is Bun's own. It differs from Jest and Vitest 4 in a run that leaves a test out, and from Vitest 5 in a run of every test. Vitest 4 and Vitest 5 write the same first line, so the file does not say which of the two the project uses. Vitest 5 got its error (Invalid snapshot file, please manually fix or delete it) in vitest-dev/vitest#10665, a fix for a browser CSP, whose description calls it a drive-by change. Jest's docs tell the user to resolve a conflict in a snapshot file by hand or with an update run.

The row of main for Jest and Vitest files is a regression of #44833 that is in no release: 1.4.4 mends such a file, main fails every test and names the test file in the error, not the .snap.

Open for a maintainer: what does a -u run that leaves a test out do with a file that does not parse? The question is the same for the three formats.

1. Refuse (this PR). Nothing is lost. The owner fixes the file or starts it over.
2. Replace always, as Jest, Vitest 4, 1.4.4, and main for a Bun-format file do. The entries of the tests that did not run are lost, which is bun test --update-snapshots rewrites the .snap file in execution order, reordering unchanged entries #42969 for this one case. In the code it is the second half of one line in remove_obsolete (file.unparsed && ran != Ran::ToTheEnd). It now covers the three formats, so a Vitest-format file needs its own answer: neither main nor Vitest 5 replaces that one.
3. Refuse only when the text of the file has a key of a test that did not run to the end. Not built. keep_entries_of_tests already collects those names.

One more cell is a choice: a Vitest-format file after a run of every test. This PR replaces it, and Vitest 5 does not. The other answer is one condition in format_of.

No user report is behind the run that leaves a test out. The tracker has no issue about a .snap with conflict markers.

A run that takes no snapshot from the .snap. Every snapshot matcher of a test file loads its .snap. toMatchInlineSnapshot() and toMatchFileSnapshot() take no entry from it.

• Bun format: such a run leaves the file as it is, with -u too. Main and every release do the same. Before 0319997 this PR removed the unused entries in such a run, and the file with the last one.
• Jest or Vitest format: such a run removes the unused entries, and the file with the last one, as on main since bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 and as in those runners.

The reason for the Bun-format rule: without --isolate, a module that registers tests when it loads does not register them again while it stays loaded. A later test file that imports it then has fewer tests than in a run with --isolate or in a run of that file alone, and a run that takes no entry from its .snap cannot tell which entries are in use.

Fixture: shared.js registers one test with toMatchSnapshot(), and a.test.js and b.test.js import it. The run is bun test -u ./a.test.js ./b.test.js, then CI=true bun test --isolate. The cells say what b.test.js.snap (Bun format) holds after the first run.

b.test.js has, beyond the import	1.4.4	main 2596ac5	this PR before 0319997	this PR
a hook with an inline snapshot	kept	kept	file removed, the second run fails	kept
a test with an inline snapshot	kept	kept	file removed, the second run fails	kept
a test with a file snapshot	kept (1.4.4 has no toMatchFileSnapshot())	kept	file removed, the second run fails	kept
a test with toMatchSnapshot()	shared 1 lost	shared 1 lost	shared 1 lost	shared 1 lost

The last row is not changed: when the later test file takes a snapshot from its .snap, -u removes the entry of the test that is not registered, in every release. --update-snapshots --isolate keeps it. So a -u run does not promise a .snap that fits a run in another isolation mode or of another list of test files. It promises less: a Bun-format .snap changes only when the run takes a snapshot from it.

Open for a maintainer: which files does that rule cover?

1. Bun-format files only (this PR). It is main's behaviour for each format. The cost: a Bun-format .snap whose tests all moved to inline snapshots stays until someone deletes it. Jest and Vitest remove such a file.
2. All three formats: drop the format check of takes_none_of_bun in remove_obsolete. 1.4.4 keeps a Jest- or Vitest-format file in the first three rows too, because it reads every .snap as a Bun-format file. Main removes it there since bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833, and main's test a file that nothing is left of is removed pins that for jest and vitest.
3. No file, as this PR did before 0319997 and as Jest and Vitest do: -u removes the unused entries of every loaded .snap. The first three rows then lose the file.
4. In a run that takes no entry, remove only the entries of tests that ran to the end, and keep the entries that no registered test has. Not built here.

Measurements. Main is b1305dd. The branch has since merged main 2596ac5 (0ffc893), and the numbers are from before that merge. The two commits after it (940c6c7 and 0319997) add one scan of the loaded entries for a checked one to each -u run that has an unused entry, and no work to a plain run. I did not measure again after them. Release builds are local bun run build:release builds for linux-x64. strace, valgrind and perf are not installed here. Syscalls are from a ptrace tracer, instructions from a perf_event_open counter (user space, all threads, median of 5 interleaved runs), allocator calls from gdb breakpoint counts on a debug build.

• Syscalls on the .snap and __snapshots__, main vs PR, one test file with 3 stored entries: plain pass 10 vs 5, plain +1 entry 10 vs 12, -u unchanged 10 vs 5, -u one changed 10 vs 11, -u -t one 10 vs 5. A run that writes has the close after the check and the open by path at the flush more than main, and the mkdir less. A run that appends also has the fstat. A plain add writes 29 bytes where main writes 170.
• -u load of a Bun-format .snap: +2,888 instructions for each stored entry (10,000 entries: 77,667,911 vs 106,546,780). Allocator calls for each stored entry: 12.0 vs 10.0. On main a -u run skipped the parse that a plain run does.
• Plain pass: 10,683 vs 10,625 instructions (spread 135 and 158) and 10.0 vs 10.0 allocator calls for each toMatchSnapshot() call (whole process, 10,000 matching calls in one file).
• Passing plain run: 1 vs 0 open file descriptors held after the first matcher. The mtime of the .snap moved on main and does not move now. Peak RSS with a 20 MB .snap: 90.7 vs 85.3 MB (spread 0.1 and 3.8 MB, 10 interleaved runs).
• sizeof(ExecutionEntry): 144 vs 144 bytes. Release text: 140,289,307 vs 140,292,123 bytes (size).
• Round trip of the 63 in-tree files in Bun's format through the parser and the printer: 56 come back byte for byte, 7 change (4 have an older first line, 3 have a layout or an escape that Bun does not write now). -u with one changed value over 10 files sorted by hand with 87 entries: 60 lines changed in 1 file (main: 3,428 lines in 10 files). A plain add in a file with comments: 0 bytes changed before the new entry, with or without an entry in the file before.
• Keep matrix (9 run shapes in 3 formats): 26 of 27 cells keep all three entries and the next run fails on the changed value. The other cell is the todo with a body in a Vitest-format file. On main 20 of 27 do.
• 10,000 nested describe() blocks with the skipped test in the innermost one: the -u run of describe.test.ts takes 0.5 s on the debug build.
• A write that fails at the flush (RLIMIT_FSIZE 0) leaves the old bytes of the file (145 in Bun's format, 152 in Vitest's).

Not done from the self-reviews, with the reason.

• The repo's agent hook (.claude/hooks/pre-bash-guard.js) and REVIEW.md still forbid -u with -t. They also guard runs with a released build, which has the bug.
• The flush of a Bun-format file can fail where main's held descriptor did not: the file was made read-only after the first change, or the process has no free descriptor at the end. This is the price of the write by path, which is what makes a rename or a removal during the run safe.
• Two runs that write one file at the same moment with other entries can still leave a file that does not parse, with NUL bytes or with a cut entry (pwrite, then ftruncate, and no lock). Main has the same race with other results. The order of the two calls stays: after a kill between them, the file most often has the whole new text. A lock or a write through a temporary file is the subject of Make concurrent bun test and bun install processes safe on shared files #39689. A -u run of every test now repairs such a file in the three formats. Before 940c6c7 no -u run repaired a Jest- or Vitest-format file.
• A change by another writer that keeps the length of the file is not seen (see above). To see it takes a second read of the file, or its mtime, at every flush.
• A .snap file that is first loaded in a later run of its test file keeps an entry that no test uses. Example: a test file that is listed twice, and a preload hook that takes a snapshot in the second run. That run registers no test, so it can't tell a used entry from an unused one. On main such a run deletes the entries of the test file's own tests. A run that lists the file once removes the unused entry.
• In that later run, the error for a file that does not parse has the same two notes. They do not name this reason. The notes also do not name the test that did not run to the end. An earlier version listed the kinds of such tests. That list was a copy of the rule and did not name test.fails, so it is gone.
• write_pending skips a file that doesn't parse until remove_obsolete decides about it. The one path that wrote before that pass was a worker that stops at --bail under --aot. Main removed that path in AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942. The skip stays as a guard, and it has no test.
• The regression of bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 for a Jest- or Vitest-format file that does not parse has no PR of its own against main (two concerns). The one-line change there skips the parse error under -u. By the code, every -u run then replaces such a file, also a run with -t, and that is answer 2 of the open question. I did not build it. If a release comes before this PR merges, that line is the fallback.
• 940c6c7 is on this PR and not on a branch of its own until a maintainer answers. It needs unparsed and the check of the run in remove_obsolete, which only this PR has.
• A plain run still fails a toMatchFileSnapshot() call beside a .snap that does not parse, although the matcher reads no entry of that file. Main does the same, and the inline matcher ignores the same error. The fix changes plain runs of a matcher that is in no release, so it needs its own change.
• A rule for a test file that registers no test (keep every entry then, in the three formats) is not here. It covers one of the three rows that the Bun-format rule covers, and for Jest and Vitest files it reverses main. One reviewer wanted it kept for those two formats.
• No test runs the Bun-format rule with a hook of a --preload file under --parallel --no-isolate (two concerns). The rule does not read the mode of the run. Its tests are the three shapes of the table and a fourth with a skipped test.

Not changed, or left for later.

• The .snap is written when the next test file takes its first snapshot, or at the end of the run. A serial --bail in a later file, or process.exit(), drops a pending write, on main and here: a changed value is not written, and a file that the run made stays empty (bun test: stop truncating .snap files on open, write them per file and on --bail #38974 writes each file after its tests, and at --bail).
• A write error at the flush of a file is still reported by the first snapshot matcher of the next test file, or at the end of the run as error: An internal error occurred (FailedToWriteSnapshotFile), and the last flush of a --parallel worker still drops it (bun test --parallel: exit 1 when a worker fails to write its snapshots #39061 has that). For Jest and Vitest files that is as on main. A Bun-format file now has the same open at the flush, so it has the same errors.
• When -u changes or removes an entry, the file is printed from its entries. Comments, manual layout, CRLF line ends and statements that are not entries are lost, as in every -u run before this PR.
• -u prints no count of the entries that it removed or replaced. Jest and Vitest do.
• -u removes unused entries only from a .snap that the run loads: the .snap of a test file with no snapshot matcher, or of a test file that was renamed, stays. Of the loaded ones, a Bun-format file also stays when the run takes no snapshot from it. The docs say so.
• Snapshots that beforeEach and afterEach hooks take in a Bun-format file have one counter for each scope, so a filtered run numbers them another way, and a partial -u can write over them (bun test: name snapshots taken in beforeEach/afterEach after the running test #38820).
• With --isolate, or in a --parallel worker, a test file that is listed twice takes its snapshots as name 2 in the second run, on 1.4.2 and on main too. The counters are reset only for --rerun-each.
• bun test: in CI mode a missing snapshot still creates a .snap file #44531 also asks for an option that turns snapshot writes off. This PR does not add one.
• A test file can register its tests with node:test and take its snapshots with expect from bun:test. There, the unused entry of a test.todo() with no function stays under -u, and main removes it: node:test gives bun:test a runner function for every todo.
• In a Vitest-format file that does not parse, a test.only beside a todo with a body is refused. The todo that only leaves out has no result, so the run does not count as a run to the end, although Vitest removes the entries of that todo.
• The titles of test.each with %p differ from Jest's (shows [ 1, 2 ] here, shows [1, 2] in Jest 30.5.2), so the keep rule does not find the entries that Jest wrote for such a test when -t leaves it out. That is a difference in titles, on main too, and it needs its own change.
• REVIEW.md and .claude/hooks/pre-bash-guard.js forbid -u with -t because of this bug. They stay while USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 runs a released build.
• The change to plain runs (a file that nothing changes is not written) is what fixes bun test: toMatchSnapshot() fails when the snapshot file is read-only, even though it matches #46051 and bun test: in CI mode a missing snapshot still creates a .snap file #44531. It is what the one writer does when nothing is pending, so a split into a second PR adds code.

Other open PRs on this code.

• bun test: open the .snap file for write only when a snapshot is added #46293 and bun test: do not create an empty .snap file when CI refuses a new snapshot #41719 are covered by this PR (no write handle until an entry is added, no file for a snapshot that CI refuses). I ran their tests against a build of this branch. All pass except one test of bun test: open the .snap file for write only when a snapshot is added #46293, --update-snapshots still needs write access, which expects a failure that is a pass here. This PR has their tests: the read-only cases, the two cases of snapshot file writes in bun-snapshots.test.ts (a .snap that does not parse beside another test file, and a -u run that exits in a test), and the two assertions in ci-restrictions.test.ts. Both PRs can be closed in favor of this one.
• bun test: parse a .snap file with macros disabled #46956: its two lines in snapshot.rs are here, byte for byte. What it has beyond this PR is a debug_assert! in the parser and more rows for a plain run.
• bun test: name snapshots taken in beforeEach/afterEach after the running test #38820 (name the snapshots of beforeEach and afterEach after the running test, in Bun's format too) has to clean up the keys that it orphans. The (unnamed) rule here keeps every such entry unless every test and hook ran to the end.
• bun test: fail on a .snap entry it cannot read instead of adding a duplicate #39733 (fail on a statement in a .snap that is no entry) meets the rule here for a file that does not parse: with both, a -u run that leaves a test out would refuse every such file, in the three formats. This PR has no test that pins what -u does with such a statement.
• Make concurrent bun test and bun install processes safe on shared files #39689, bun test: stop truncating .snap files on open, write them per file and on --bail #38974 and bun test --parallel: exit 1 when a worker fails to write its snapshots #39061 touch the same writer and need a rebase onto this.

Credit. #43043 has the test matrix that most of the new tests come from. Its port to the current source fails main's retry test. #42980 kept the order with one slot for each key. #34042 parsed the file under -u. #46293 has the read-only tests. #46956 has the macro lines.

Tests from the two older PRs. The three commits after 7b73814 change tests only. They add the two tests of snapshot file writes from #46293 and two assertions from #41719. The test for an aborted -u run has a second row, in which the run opens the file. With O_TRUNC added to Snapshots::open, that row fails. Bun 1.4.3 fails all of them.

New tests that fail on main. 153 of 243, counted at 0319997 with the canary build of main 2596ac5 (a release build, not a debug build). By file: snapshot.test.ts 82 of 138, new-snapshot.test.ts 61 of 88, bun-snapshots.test.ts 9 of 16, describe.test.ts 1 of 1. One test that main has in ci-restrictions.test.ts also fails there, on its new assertion. The tests that pass on main pin what must stay as it is: for example the four tests for a test file that imports a module with tests pass on main and fail on this PR before 0319997. Of the 21 tests for a file that does not parse, 16 fail on 0ffc893.

Suites run with the debug build. At 0319997: new-snapshot.test.ts (90 pass), bun-snapshots.test.ts (22 pass), describe.test.ts (19 pass), snapshots/snapshot.test.ts (319 tests: 317 pass, 1 skip, and error snapshots fails here and on main because its inline snapshot expects colors), existing-snapshots.test.ts, snapshots/more.test.ts, snapshots/moremore.test.ts, ci-restrictions.test.ts (12 pass), vitest-apis.test.ts (151 pass), vitest-flavor.test.ts (191 pass), test-retry-repeats-basic.test.ts, test/cli/test/rerun-each.test.ts (7 pass), test/regression/issue/14029.test.ts, test/js/junit-reporter/junit.test.js (36 pass), test/cli/test/isolation.test.ts (151 pass, 2 skip, and no other builtin module patches a global class when it loads fails: its inner test needs 6 s on the debug build and has the default timeout of 5 s, with main's build too). cargo clippy -p bun_runtime and cargo fmt --check are clean. Not run again at this head: bun run rust:check-all (12 targets ok before the merge of main, and the two commits after it have no code for one platform). The six tests of snapshot.test.ts over the fixtures of Jest and Vitest take about 5 s each on the debug build and reach the default timeout on a loaded machine, with main's build too.

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Status: ready for review at 0319997. Two commits came after 0ffc893:

• 940c6c7: after a run of every test, -u replaces a Jest- or Vitest-format .snap that does not parse, as it does for a Bun-format file. Main fails every test on such a file since bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833, and 1.4.4 mends it.
• 0319997: a run that takes no snapshot from a Bun-format .snap leaves that file as it is, as main does. Before this commit the PR removed the unused entries in such a run. That lost the .snap of a test file whose snapshot tests are in a module that an earlier test file imported.

Two decisions wait for a maintainer. The PR body has a table for each:

1. What a -u run that leaves a test out does with a .snap that does not parse (refuse, as here, or replace, as Jest does).
2. Which formats the rule for a run that takes no snapshot from the .snap covers (Bun format only, as here and on main, or all three).

How to reproduce on main (also on 1.3.14 to 1.4.4):

// a.test.js
test("one", () => { expect("v1").toMatchSnapshot(); });
test("two", () => { expect(process.env.V ?? "v2").toMatchSnapshot(); });
test("three", () => { expect("v3").toMatchSnapshot(); });

1. bun test ./a.test.js writes three entries.
2. bun test -u -t one ./a.test.js leaves only one 1 in __snapshots__/a.test.js.snap.
3. V=changed bun test ./a.test.js exits 0. It writes two 1 anew from the changed value.

The same happens in step 2 with -u when two and three are test.skip or test.todo, when one is test.only with --only, and when two throws before its snapshot line.

With this branch all three entries stay in step 2, and step 3 fails on the changed value. The tests are in test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/new-snapshot.test.ts, test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/bun-snapshots.test.ts, test/js/bun/test/describe.test.ts and the --update-snapshots block of test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/snapshots/snapshot.test.ts. 153 of the 243 new tests fail on main 2596ac5.

CI: build 139628 of 0319997 has 184 of 188 jobs passed, on every lane that ran: alpine, debian, ubuntu, the ASAN lane, Windows and macOS aarch64. No test of this PR failed. Three tests that this PR does not touch passed on a retry (node-tls-connect.test.ts, bun-install-git-deps.test.ts, fetch-leak.test.ts). The other four jobs are the macOS x64 test jobs. They have not started. Every macOS x64 agent is busy, so the jobs expire in the queue after an hour and are scheduled again (three times so far).

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^{Updated 1:18 AM PT - Nov 10th, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit 03199974b89899d9d69507182e920ab52f8fc3e4 passed in Build #139628! 🎉

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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 findings, two other concerns were examined and ruled out: bun test -u on a test file that uses only inline or file snapshots now loads its Bun-format .snap (via format_of from toMatchInlineSnapshot/toMatchFileSnapshot) and deletes it when no entry is checked and every test passed — a behavior change from main, but it is the same unchecked-key rule Jest/Vitest files already had, so consistent with the PR's stated design rather than a bug; and --rerun-each/listing a file twice on an unparseable Bun-format file repeats the DoesNotParse error on each run because keeps_all is deliberately sticky (later runs can register fewer tests from the module cache), which the code comment documents.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewrites the .snap writer in src/runtime/test_runner/snapshot.rs (+434/-188) so every format is parsed on load, adds Pending/Ran/LeftAsItIs and the has_body/written/keeps_all/unparsed fields, replaces the fd-held-from-first-matcher writer with a by-path pwrite/ftruncate flush, and adds a new user-facing error in test_command.rs plus ~1,300 lines of tests. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Two confirmed findings (a concurrent-writer race that can corrupt a Bun-format file, and -u refusing to replace an unparseable file in common cases) are posted inline, and the change is large and semantically dense, so a human look is warranted; the use std::io::Write as _ import flagged by conventions is used in over 100 files under src/ and is not an issue.

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Walkthrough

Snapshot updates now track test and hook completion when changing snapshot files. The runner defers writes, removes obsolete entries when appropriate, and reports parse, write, or removal errors. Tests and documentation cover update behavior across Bun, Jest, and Vitest formats.

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Snapshot update behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track registered test callbacks src/runtime/test_runner/bun_test.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/ScopeFunctions.rs, test/js/bun/test/describe.test.ts	Execution entries record whether a callback was registered, even when filtering or test modes later remove it. A deep-nesting test checks updates with skipped and obsolete entries.
Parse and write snapshot files src/runtime/test_runner/snapshot.rs, test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/new-snapshot.test.ts, docs/guides/test/snapshot.mdx, docs/guides/test/update-snapshots.mdx	Snapshot updates parse loaded contents and defer appends or rewrites until flush. Tests cover parsing, entry updates, file layout, concurrent writers, and file changes during runs. The guides show how to update a changed snapshot value.
Retain or remove snapshot entries src/runtime/test_runner/snapshot.rs, src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/jest.rs, test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/bun-snapshots.test.ts, test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/snapshots/snapshot.test.ts, test/js/bun/test/ci-restrictions.test.ts, docs/test/snapshots.mdx	Obsolete-entry removal uses test and hook completion, test modes, and snapshot format. The runner reports removal errors. Tests and documentation cover retained entries, removal of unused entries and empty files, and read-only snapshot files.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#39112: Changes which test or hook receives a done(err) failure. This PR uses test and hook completion state to determine which snapshot entries to retain.

Suggested reviewers: alii

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Low · up to c02c8

Concurrent updates can corrupt a snapshot, and some obsolete todo entries can remain. Both have workarounds and can be followed up after merge.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check		[#42969] The writer preserves Bun-format entry order and appends new keys. Update tests cover ordering. [#46051] Matching snapshots no longer require write access; read-only tests cover this behavior.…	Add and document a CLI flag or bunfig.toml setting to disable snapshot writing independently of CI. Add automated tests for the option.

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title describes the main snapshot retention change.
Out of Scope Changes check		[#42969, #46051, #44531] The writer, retention rules, error handling, tests, and documentation support reviewable updates and avoid unnecessary writes. Disabling macros supports the new snapshot parsi…
Description check		The description explains the problem, the fix, and how the author verified it. It does not use the template’s exact headings, but it covers both required sections and provides substantial test details…

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[#42969, #46051, #44531] The writer, retention rules, error handling, tests, and documentation support reviewable updates and avoid unnecessary writes. Disabling macros supports the new snapshot parsing path. No unrelated change is established.

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The description explains the problem, the fix, and how the author verified it. It does not use the template’s exact headings, but it covers both required sections and provides substantial test details.

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[#42969] The writer preserves Bun-format entry order and appends new keys. Update tests cover ordering. [#46051] Matching snapshots no longer require write access; read-only tests cover this behavior. [#44531] CI refusal no longer creates a snapshot file, and tests cover this behavior. The requested documented option to disable snapshot writing independently of CI is missing.

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Add and document a CLI flag or bunfig.toml setting to disable snapshot writing independently of CI. Add automated tests for the option.

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Review comments at @docs/test/snapshots.mdx:
- Line 53: The snapshot cleanup documentation omits the collection-failure
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Review comments at @src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs:
- Line 5583: Update the snapshot cleanup failure path that increments
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Update the state passed to ScopeFunctions so has_body reflects whether the
original test supplied a callback, keeping bodyless todos eligible for removal
during --update-snapshots.

Review comments at @src/runtime/test_runner/snapshot.rs:
- Around line 688-692: Update the completion calculation in
keep_entries_of_tests so a bodyless todo omitted by test.only is treated as
complete: compute is_todo_with_no_entry before updating all_ran_to_the_end, and
include it alongside ran_to_the_end in that update. Preserve its existing use
when deciding whether to keep snapshot entries.
- Line 1288: Change error_of_open to accept a borrowed bun_sys::Error, since it
only reads err.syscall, and update its call site to pass a reference while
preserving the existing error conversion.
- Around line 800-801: Update the snapshot state reset around
`self.values.clear()` and `self.counts.clear()` so revisiting a file after
another file does not discard retention information for its previously loaded
snapshot entries. Preserve per-file retention state across non-adjacent visits,
or otherwise ensure revisits keep all unchecked entries safe from
`remove_obsolete` when imported registrations remain cached.
- Line 621: Update remove_obsolete so entries pruned from self.values are
restored if Self::open fails before the map is written. Preserve the original
loaded entries for retry, preventing them from being classified as new or
appended again and keeping added accurate.
- Around line 799-802: Update the pending snapshot flush flow around
remove_obsolete, format_of, and write_pending so file A’s update is flushed and
any failure is reported to A’s matcher when A finishes, rather than being
reported through file B. Preserve A’s pending state when writing fails so its
update can be retried.
- Around line 651-655: Update the snapshot completion check around
`buntest.execution.sequences` and `all_ran_to_the_end` to account for registered
hooks in hooks-only scopes omitted by `-t`, even when they have no execution
sequence. Ensure omitted hooks prevent cleanup from deleting their snapshots,
while preserving the existing completion checks for executed sequences.
- Around line 490-491: On the serial bailout path, flush pending snapshot
updates before returning so earlier successful updates are written. Preserve
entries for tests that did not run by using the existing partial-update behavior
represented by Pending::NewEntries, and avoid a whole-file rewrite that drops
those entries.
- Around line 815-816: Update the snapshot write flow around the is_appended
length check so the file-level lock covers both checking the current file length
and completing the append or whole-file rewrite. Ensure concurrent updates to
the same snapshot cannot write at a stale offset and produce a malformed file.

Review comments at @test/js/bun/test/snapshot-tests/snapshots/snapshot.test.ts:
- Around line 1875-1876: Update the snapshot test rows that call runTests to
assert each first run’s expected exit code and test counts before checking the
stored snapshot, including rows that intentionally fail. Preserve each row’s
intended success or failure expectations.

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Answer to the reviews of 38a3049. The changes are in 7b73814.

Changed:

• With --reporter=junit, the report now has the two --update-snapshots errors that no test has as a failed test case of the test file. The errors are a .snap file that is left as it is because it does not parse, and one whose unused entries can't be removed.
• A .snap file that is loaded in a later run of its test file keeps all its entries. A later run is a repeat of --rerun-each, or without --isolate a test file that runs a second time. This is the A, B, A finding. It reproduces with --rerun-each.
• The summary prints no empty snapshots: line when the only snapshot of a run was not written.

Not changed, with the reasons in the threads:

• The unused entry of a node:test todo with no function.
• The pending write at a serial --bail (bun test: stop truncating .snap files on open, write them per file and on --bail #38974).
• A failed write that the next test file reports (bun test: stop truncating .snap files on open, write them per file and on --bail #38974, bun test --parallel: exit 1 when a worker fails to write its snapshots #39061).
• A lock for two runs that write one file (Make concurrent bun test and bun install processes safe on shared files #39689).

These need no new issue.

Open for a maintainer: the rule for a Bun-format .snap file that does not parse. The PR description has it under Downsides.

Linked issues: #44531 reports that a CI refusal still makes a .snap file, and this PR fixes that. The issue also asks for an option that turns snapshot writes off. That is a feature request, and this PR does not add it.

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The count that this PR lists under "Not changed, or left for later" is ready as a follow-up. With it, the summary of a -u run ends with N removed, for example snapshots: 1 passed, 1 removed.

• The change is one commit on top of 7b73814: robobun/b0053db2/update-snapshots-one-map...robobun/86fa8a9d/update-snapshots-report
• It is +22/-7 lines in src/: one count before the retain in remove_obsolete, the summary line, and the Snapshots worker frame.
• It opens as its own PR against main after this PR merges. If a reviewer wants the count in this PR, the commit applies as it is.

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#46293 and #41719 overlap with this PR. I ran their tests against a build of this branch (7b73814).

• bun test: open the .snap file for write only when a snapshot is added #46293: 5 of its 6 new tests in bun-snapshots.test.ts pass. The other one is --update-snapshots still needs write access. That difference is intended: here, -u on a read-only file whose entries all match passes.
• bun test: do not create an empty .snap file when CI refuses a new snapshot #41719: test/js/bun/test/ci-restrictions.test.ts with its two new assertions passes, 12 of 12.

c02c83d adds the tests that this PR did not have yet: the two cases of snapshot file writes from #46293 and the two assertions from #41719. It changes no source file.

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Two runs on this head (5397328) in which --update-snapshots removes entries that are in use. I found them during the follow-up work for test files that take no snapshot.

1. A test file that registers no test. An inline snapshot in a hook, outside of a test, or in a describe() with no test loads the .snap. The run then removes every entry and unlinks the file. It exits 0 and prints nothing about it.

// b.test.js, beside __snapshots__/b.test.js.snap with one entry
beforeAll(() => {
  expect(1).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`1`);
});

bun test -u ./b.test.js unlinks b.test.js.snap. Without --isolate, a later importer of a shared test module also registers no test, and its .snap is in use in an --isolate or single-file run.

A fix is on robobun/838a9766/keep-snap-of-test-file-with-no-test: one commit on this head, 3815f4f (+12 -1 in snapshot.rs, 12 tests in snapshot.test.ts, 9 fail on this head). keep_entries_of_tests returns a new Ran::NoTest when the file registered no test and the run asked the snapshot file for no entry. remove_obsolete then keeps every entry, as it does for a describe() callback that throws.

2. A .snap that Jest wrote for test.each titles. Bun names the tests shows [ 1, 2 ] and shows { a: 1 }. The keys that Jest 30.5.2 wrote are shows [1, 2] 1 and shows {"a": 1} 1. So the keep rule does not find the entries of a test that -t leaves out.

// a.test.js
test.each([[[1, 2]], [{ a: 1 }]])("shows %p", value => {
  expect(value).toMatchSnapshot();
});
test("other", () => {
  expect(1).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`1`);
});

bun test -u -t other ./a.test.js prints 1 pass, 2 filtered out, exits 0 and unlinks the file with both entries. jest -u -t other keeps both. The same happens when the test.each tests are test.skip.each. The branch above does not change this case.

[claude]

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

[robobun]

Two commits came after 0ffc893.

940c6c7: a Jest- or Vitest-format .snap that does not parse

• Since bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833, bun test -u fails every test on such a file with Failed to parse snapshot file for: <test file>. 1.4.4 rewrites the file.
• The rule that this PR has for a Bun-format file now holds for the three formats. A run of every test and hook to the end replaces the file in its own format. A run that leaves a test out leaves the file and reports one error.
• The note of that error says how to start the file over and keep its format: delete everything below its first line for a Jest- or Vitest-format file. A deleted Jest-format file comes back in Bun's format, and jest --ci rejects that.
• Jest 30.5.2 and Vitest 4.1.9 replace such a file in every update run. Vitest 5.1.0 never replaces it.

0319997: a run that takes no snapshot from the .snap

• This is the first case of the comment above (a test file that registers no test). The cause is wider. The PR removed the unused entries of a Bun-format .snap in every -u run that loaded it, also when only an inline snapshot or a file snapshot loaded it.
• A test file that imports a module with tests after another test file did loses its .snap that way. It happens with a hook only, and also with a test of its own that has an inline snapshot.
• A Bun-format file now stays as it is in such a run, as on main and in every release. Jest- and Vitest-format files keep main's rule.
• The rule for a test file with no test on robobun/838a9766/keep-snap-of-test-file-with-no-test covers one of those cases, so this PR does not take it.

The second case of that comment (test.each titles with %p differ from Jest's) is a difference in test titles. Main has it too, and it is not part of this PR.

Two decisions are open for a maintainer. The PR description has a table for each:

1. What a -u run that leaves a test out does with a .snap that does not parse: refuse (this PR) or replace (Jest, and main for a Bun-format file).
2. Which formats the rule of 0319997 covers: Bun format only (this PR, main's behaviour), or all three.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[robobun]

One more case for the open question "which files does that rule cover?" (a -u run that takes no snapshot from the .snap). It is about a Jest or Vitest file that an older Bun appended to.

The file. Jest's first line and one entry, y gone 1, that no test uses. Bun 1.4.4 runs a test m older and appends m older 1 with "f": [Function: named]. The keys are now out of order, which is how main knows that the file may hold an older Bun's entries (#44833).

The run. bun test -u -t inline runs one test with toMatchInlineSnapshot(). It loads the .snap and asks it for no entry.

build	the file after the run	the next CI=true bun test
Bun 1.4.4	unchanged	passes
main 98cda0d	y gone 1 is removed, m older 1 is left	fails m older: - "f": [Function: named], + "f": [Function],
#48454 at 4582bd3	the same as main	the same as main

One key is always in order. So the file no longer counts as one with older entries, and no order of keys can say that it is. #48454 keeps the order of such a file in every other -u run and lists this case under "Not changed here". The same happens with Vitest's first line.

By the Notes of this PR, a Jest or Vitest file keeps main's rule in such a run (answer 1), so the row of main should hold here too. I did not build this PR to check it. Answers 2 and 4 close the case, because y gone 1 stays and two keys are left: the run leaves the file as it is, as 1.4.4 does.