[robobun]

Problem

• bun update '!{react,react-dom}' excludes nothing. It updates every dependency, with --latest to a new major, and exits 0.
• matches (src/install/update_scope.rs:251) sends only text with a * to the glob matcher. It compares other text byte for byte.

Fix

• Pattern::parse asks the glob tokenizer once what the text is: *, plain text, or a glob. Every glob now goes to the glob matcher.
• An exclusion that can match no package name is an error before bun.lock is read: error: unexpected "," in pattern "!a,b".
• Verified: test/cli/install/bun-update.test.ts (30 of 43 new cases fail on main), a Miri unit test, two more update suites.
• Self-reviewed: 28 concerns raised, 25 addressed. Not taken (Notes): a reader shared with bun outdated, a separate commit for the errors, rows in two other test files.

Background

• An argument is a pattern when it starts with ! or contains *, and always under --dev, --prod, --no-optional and --depth 0.
• The glob tokenizer splits a pattern into literal bytes, wildcards, classes and groups. The new Prepared::tokens yields them.
• No issue reports this. install: pnpm parity — dedupe, prune, pm licenses, audit fix, add --filter/--catalog, nested overrides, transitive update, and workspace fixes #38333 shipped pnpm's model, and pnpm reads only *. bun outdated and the docs read a glob. The author of install: pnpm parity — dedupe, prune, pm licenses, audit fix, add --filter/--catalog, nested overrides, transitive update, and workspace fixes #38333 should choose, together with --filter: read braces around a list of names as a name glob again #48180.
• Considered sending every pattern to the glob matcher: '!webpack' pays a call per lockfile row, and '!a,b' stays silent.

Downsides

• Exclusions that now exit 1: no text, ,|{}[]\ outside a group or class, a parenthesis without its pair, a ( that starts the text. On main they updated everything.
• Still silent: '!*types*' keeps @types/node, because * stops at /.
• Cost: .text +1,792 bytes, 1 allocation per pattern argument. bun update <name> pays nothing.

Notes

Decisions.

• bun update '{a,b}' has no ! and no *. It is not a pattern and stays error: unrecognised dependency format. To change that, is_pattern must change, and every bun update <name> runs that line. bun update '{a,zzz}' would then skip zzz in silence, while bun update a zzz is an error.
• An exclusion that matches no package stays silent. An error there breaks bun update '!webpack' in a project without webpack.
• '!(a|b)' is an error. A leading ! is always the exclusion prefix here. The !(a|b) form of the glob matcher stays inside one path segment, so it would drop every scoped package.
• Only exclusions are checked. A pattern that selects and matches nothing is already an error (no packages in bun.lock match). So '*,@2' and --prod 'a,b' are read as patterns and get that error.
• A dependency key can hold one of , | { } [ ] ("a,b": "npm:..."). No package name can. On main '!a,b' excluded that entry. It now needs an escape: '!a\,b'.
• The note: is one fixed line for { } ( ) | ,: note: to exclude several packages, pass "!{a,b}", "!@(a|b)" or "!a" "!b".
• Only bytes outside of groups and classes are checked. '!{a|b}' and '![a,b]' are valid globs that match no package name. They stay silent.
• Parentheses that pair up are bytes of a name in every position. @is-(unknown)/is-array is a published package, and a dependency key such as x(y) can be excluded as written, as on main. A ( that starts the text, follows a group prefix (@(, +(, ?(, *(, !() or has no pair is a group that is not complete: '!(webpack)', '!@(babel/core'.
• An @ that opens a group or an alternative of one is not a version separator: '!{@babel/core,@babel/cli}' and '!@types/@(node|bun)' are patterns. On main both print a version cannot be combined with a pattern.
• The messages that echo a pattern now mask it with for_terminal, like the version errors do. Without that, '!{http://user:pw,@host/x}' would reach an echo that main never reaches.

Not changed.

• bun outdated <names> reads each argument with glob::r#match (src/runtime/cli/outdated_command.rs). It has no error for text that can match no name: bun outdated '!a,b' lists every row, and bun outdated '!(a|b)' reads the glob form and drops scoped packages. One reader for both commands is a follow-up. It changes the exit code of a second command.
• --filter names are --filter: read braces around a list of names as a name glob again #48180.
• bun why and the script globs of bun run read only *. Their gate and their matcher agree.
• * does not match the / of a scoped name. bun update '!*eslint*' --latest still moves @typescript-eslint/parser. pnpm excludes it. The docs now say how * reads a scoped name.
• expand_positionals turns the selection into package names. With "aliased": "npm:no-deps" beside a no-deps entry, bun update '!aliased' still moves the alias, as on main.

pnpm. matcherFromPattern in @pnpm/matcher 1000.1.0 has three arms: * matches all, text that changes under regex escaping becomes a regex with * as .*, and other text is compared as written. matches on main has the same three arms, but its middle arm is bun_glob. So on main '!{a,b}' is plain text and '!{a,b}*' is a brace group. These exclusions exit 0 in pnpm and exclude nothing there. They exit 1 with this PR: '!a,b', '!(a|b)', '!{a,b', '!'. bun update '!react' '!react-dom' works on main, in pnpm and with this PR.

Other PRs and issues.

• --filter: read braces around a list of names as a name glob again #48180 and Do not read the directory of a sideEffects glob or a --filter path as glob syntax #44939 each add a method at the same place of impl Prepared in src/glob/lib.rs, and --filter: read braces around a list of names as a name glob again #48180 adds a test module at the end of that file. Keep both sides. Either order works. All three add the same bun_glob line to scripts/rust-miri.ts.
• install: ask UpdateScope before bun update drops a locked version #46254 and install: read a missing lockfile as empty when package.json has nothing to lock #46116 edit other lines of update_scope.rs.
• Support package filters with bun update #11572 and feat(pm): support package-name wildcards in bun rm and bun update #39194 ask for exclusions and wildcards in bun update. bun update '!react' '!react-dom' and bun update '@types/*' work since 1.4.0. This PR does not close them.

Measured. The counts are gdb breakpoint counts on the main thread, from the entry of expand_positionals to its return, on debug builds of main 2596ac5 and of this PR. The fixtures have a hand-written bun.lock and a registry on a closed port. The sizes are from release builds of both. strace is not in the build container, so the syscall counts are from gdb catch syscall.

• named path (bun update a b): is_pattern 2, Pattern::parse 0, lockfile loads 0, allocations 0 inside expand_positionals (gdb counts, main 2 / 0 / 0 / 0)
• literal pattern ('!@typescript-eslint/parser', 100 rows): allocations 336 (main 335), Shape::parse 0 (main 0), * scans of the pattern 0 (main 100)
• group pattern ('{p001,p002}*', 100 rows): Shape::parse 2 (main 1), allocations 226 (main 225), token walks 1 per pattern argument
• release binary .text: +1,792 bytes (llvm-size -A, main 2596ac5 vs PR). update_package_json_and_install_and_cli: +347 bytes (nm -S)
• size_of::(): 72 bytes (main 64), one per pattern argument
• packages requested for '!{no-deps,a-dep}': 2 (main 4, expected 2). Malformed exclusions: 0 bun.lock opens, 0 connects, exit 1 (main: opened, 4 packages requested, 0)
• existing assertions changed: 0 (expected 0). Input classes that move from exit 0 to exit 1: 3

The added allocation is the masked echo: for_terminal renders the pattern to a String once per run. The second Shape::parse call finds the parse that the classification cached. No lockfile row pays for either.

Tests.

• 43 new cases in test/cli/install/bun-update.test.ts. On a debug build of main 30 fail. The other 13 pass on main by design. They pin what does not change: '!a' '!b', '!*no-deps*' against a scoped name, exclusions that match nothing, a selecting pattern with a stray byte, --prod 'x(y)', '!x(y)', the version errors, and '{a,b}' without ! or *.
• tests::tokens in src/glob/lib.rs runs under Miri (bun run rust:miri -p bun_glob). It fails when the skip of the leading !s is removed.
• On a debug build of this PR: bun-update.test.ts 218 pass, bun-update-transitive.test.ts 326 pass, bun-update-lockfile-sync.test.ts 172 pass. redacted-config-logs.test.ts 97 pass and 1 fails (bun patch). That case fails the same way on the debug build of main on the machine used.

Self-review, the parts not taken.

• One name-pattern reader for bun update and bun outdated: a follow-up, see above.
• A separate commit for the errors: the errors and the @ rule must land together. '!no-deps,@a-dep' is a version error on main, and it stays loud here only because the , is rejected.
• Rows in bun-update-transitive.test.ts and redacted-config-logs.test.ts: the same cases are rows of the new tables in bun-update.test.ts.

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Status

Reproduced on the release build 1.4.3-canary.1 (367d939) and on a debug build of main 2596ac5, with the local test registry (test/cli/install/registry).

• Project: no-deps ^1.0.0 locked at 1.0.0, a-dep ^1.0.1 locked at 1.0.1, dep-with-tags ^1.0.0 locked at 1.0.0.
• bun update '!{no-deps,a-dep}' exits 0 and moves all three packages. With --latest it writes no-deps ^2.0.0.
• bun outdated '!{no-deps,a-dep}' lists only dep-with-tags.
• With this PR, bun update '!{no-deps,a-dep}' moves only dep-with-tags.

State: ready for review. The review threads are resolved. The PR needs the decision that the description names: glob syntax in bun update patterns, or * only as in pnpm (the same question as #48180).

CI at cf8854c: every job that finished passed (185 of 189), Windows, Linux, ASAN and macOS arm64 included. The other 4 jobs are the darwin x64 test shards of build 139083. A shard expires when no darwin x64 agent is free for an hour, and Buildkite schedules it again. Each expiry reports the build as failed. No test of this PR failed on any lane.

PR: #48298

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Walkthrough

The update command now parses package patterns and matches them against dependency names and aliases. The changes add glob token iteration, pattern validation and diagnostics, documentation for pattern syntax, and tests for exclusions and update behavior.

Changes

Update package-pattern behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Expose glob token boundaries src/glob/lib.rs, scripts/rust-miri.ts	Prepared::tokens yields top-level token offsets and literal flags. Tests cover token forms, and the default Miri crate list includes bun_glob.
Parse and match update patterns src/install/update_scope.rs	Matcher distinguishes universal, exact, and glob patterns. Parsing handles malformed syntax and version suffixes. Matching checks package names and aliases, and diagnostics format pattern bytes for terminal display.
Document and validate update patterns docs/pm/cli/update.mdx, test/cli/install/bun-update.test.ts	Documentation describes pattern detection and syntax. CLI tests cover exclusions, aliases, scoped names, malformed patterns, lockfile behavior, and recursive updates.

Possibly related issues

• oven-sh/bun#39194 — The PR adds wildcard package-pattern matching for bun update, which is part of the issue’s objective. The bun remove behavior is not covered.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: Low · up to cf885

Remaining issues are bounded: exclusions for aliases beginning with paired parentheses fail, and documented matching rules omit literal self-matches. Correct these or explicitly accept them before merging.

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Review comments at @src/install/update_scope.rs:
- Around line 315-323: Update the `opens` check in the version-suffix scan so it
skips `@` only when the preceding separator is inside a group; an ungrouped
comma in patterns such as `*,@2` must still trigger the version-conflict result.
Preserve the existing handling of grouped separators and other valid suffixes.
- Line 339: Document the literal self-match behavior in the pattern semantics
for Matcher::Glob: a pattern exactly equal to an alias name matches it even when
glob syntax would interpret characters such as brackets differently, and
exclusions use the same behavior. Preserve the existing matcher unless the
project requires strict glob semantics; if so, update the matcher and its
exclusion test consistently.
- Around line 231-234: Update the update-scope exclusion parsing around
`scope_len` to reject an unclosed group such as `!@(a/` instead of treating it
as a pattern that matches every dependency. Validate group closure without
interpreting literal parentheses in otherwise valid scope names as pattern
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

[claude]

I reviewed the follow-up commit (cf8854c) and found no new bugs; it addresses the three points from my earlier pass (paired parentheses in unscoped names, an unclosed @( before a scope /, and the docs wording). A human look is still worthwhile because the PR settles a product question it explicitly leaves open — whether bun update reads full globs or pnpm's *-only model — and three exclusion forms that exited 0 on main now exit 1.

What was reviewed:

• Matcher::of pairing logic: text[at - 1] is guarded by at == 0 ||, text[at] by the token iterator's bound, and unpaired only counts literal parentheses, so a closed @(...) group never pairs with a stray ).
• has_version_suffix: rest[at - 1] is safe since the search starts at 1; an @ after ,|({ is skipped, so *,@ 2 passes the version check and falls to the no-match error (pinned by a test, not a defect).
• Prepared::tokens only sees text with leading !s already stripped, so negations returns 0 there; edition 2024 lets the impl Iterator borrow of self compile without + '_.
• Not run: the Miri unit test and the new subprocess cases — this review was by reading only.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches src/install/update_scope.rs (how bun update classifies positional arguments as exact text, *, or a glob, plus a new fatal error for negated patterns with stray list syntax), a new Prepared::tokens iterator in src/glob/lib.rs, a Miri crate-list entry, docs for the pattern grammar, and roughly 40 new concurrent subprocess tests with exact stderr assertions. No security-sensitive surface is involved beyond routing echoed patterns through for_terminal, which redacts credentials in URL-like text and is covered by a test. The second commit resolves every inline comment from the prior run, no CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths, and the bug hunt ran dry; deferral rather than approval is because the PR changes user-facing exit codes and the author's own description defers the glob-versus-pnpm model choice to a maintainer.

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- Line 239: Update the exclusion-start check using `at` so a paired literal
parenthesized alias such as `(a)` is accepted in `!(a)`. Validate that the
parentheses form a valid pair, preserving errors for malformed lists rather than
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