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  • New Features

    • --savings-only now evaluates merges individually, applying size-reducing changes while withholding merges that would increase output size.
    • Reports distinguish untouched and partially consolidated files, including withheld merge counts and potential byte growth.
    • Plugin warnings provide clearer details about withheld merges.
  • Documentation

    • Updated CLI, configuration, API, aggressive-mode, and plugin documentation, including revised examples and partial-application behavior.
  • Chores

    • Released version 1.13.0 with updated development tooling.

Signed-off-by: Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
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Per-merge savings-only consolidation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transactional merge evaluation
src/lib/transaction.js, src/lib/style.js, src/merge.js
Savings-only measures each merge cluster and rolls back merges that increase stylesheet size.
Consolidation state and result shaping
src/consolidate.js, src/cli/file-pass.js
Consolidation tracks applied, skipped, and withheld merges across passes. Aggressive mode settles emptied condition blocks.
CLI and plugin reporting
src/cli/render.js, src/plugin.js
Output distinguishes untouched and partially consolidated files. Plugin warnings include withheld counts and byte growth.
Behavior validation and release documentation
test/*, README.md, CHANGELOG.md, package.json
Tests cover mixed merge outcomes. Documentation and metadata describe the new behavior and version 1.13.0.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to fb648

The current head can undercount inserted CSS rules in savings-only mode, allowing output to grow while the gate accepts the merge, and rollback can fail to restore the original result after multiple leading removals. These correctness issues should be fixed before merging.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as CLI
  participant consolidate as consolidate.js
  participant merge as merge.js
  participant transaction as transaction.js
  participant root as stylesheet root
  CLI->>consolidate: request savings-only consolidation
  consolidate->>merge: run consolidation pass
  merge->>transaction: snapshot merge state
  merge->>root: apply merge
  merge->>transaction: measure serialized byte size
  alt merge increases size
    transaction->>root: rollback merge
    merge-->>consolidate: record withheld merge
  else merge does not increase size
    merge-->>consolidate: retain applied merge
  end
  consolidate-->>CLI: return results and withheld totals
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🟡 Changes recommended

Critical rollback and per-run gating issues remain, along with moderate reporting and performance concerns.

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Pull request overview

This PR changes --savings-only to evaluate merges individually, with updated reporting, messaging, tests, documentation, and 1.13.0 metadata.

Changes:

  • Adds speculative merge evaluation and rollback.
  • Updates CLI/plugin reporting and tests.
  • Revises documentation, changelog, and package metadata.
File summaries
File Review status
test/plugin.test.js Plugin warning expectation updates; no final comment supplied.
test/helpers.js Mixed CSS fixture updates; no final comment supplied.
test/dedup.test.js Savings-only behavior tests; no final comment supplied.
test/cli.test.js CLI summary and output tests; no final comment supplied.
src/plugin.js Updated plugin warnings; no final comment supplied.
src/merge.js Critical (2 votes): separator cache remains stale after rollback. Critical (1 vote): independent sub-runs are gated together. Moderate (2 votes): full-root serialization per cluster may cause significant performance costs.
src/lib/transaction.js Critical (2 votes): rollback can detach nested rule objects and produce incorrect nested merge results.
src/consolidate.js Withheld-merge aggregation updates; no final comment supplied.
src/cli/render.js Partial consolidation reporting updates; no final comment supplied.
README.md Moderate (3 votes): report preview still uses the old file-level savings gate and may misreport mixed files.
package.json Version and tooling updates; no final comment supplied.
package-lock.json Lockfile updates; no final comment supplied.
CHANGELOG.md Version 1.13.0 release notes; no final comment supplied.
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README.md:79

  • The README now describes per-merge behavior, but src/cli/options.js:35 still prints that --savings-only leaves a file untouched and is checked per file. The built-in --help output therefore contradicts the behavior documented here; update the CLI help text in the same change.
| `--savings-only`, `-s` | Leave out each consolidation that would make the file bigger rather than smaller, keeping the ones that save bytes (checked per merge); only applies together with `--fix`, since report mode doesn’t write |
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Refactor `savings-only` implementation to assess merges individually, splitting entangled groups appropriately, and track byte outcomes efficiently using new cache mechanisms. Added logic to ensure accurate rollback and proper handling of speculative merges for nested and blocked structures.

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Signed-off-by: Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com>

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841-848: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Tighten the final assertion; the first operand is dead.

alone.trim() is a substring of alone.trimStart(). So mixed.endsWith(alone.trimStart()) implies mixed.includes(alone.trim()), and the disjunction always resolves through the second operand. The test also states that the surrounding merges stay byte-identical, but a substring check is weaker than that claim. Assert the containment directly, or assert the exact expected output.

♻️ Proposed test tightening
-    assert.ok(mixed.endsWith(alone.trimStart()) || mixed.includes(alone.trim()));
+    assert.ok(mixed.includes(alone.trim()), 'the shrinking cluster is unchanged by the gate');
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In `@test/dedup.test.js` around lines 841 - 848, Strengthen the final assertion in
the “Declining a merge leaves the merges around it byte-identical to an ungated
run” test by removing the redundant endsWith/includes disjunction and directly
asserting that mixed contains the standalone shrinking output. Preserve the
existing trimmed comparison while ensuring the assertion explicitly verifies
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In `@test/dedup.test.js`:
- Around line 841-848: Strengthen the final assertion in the “Declining a merge
leaves the merges around it byte-identical to an ungated run” test by removing
the redundant endsWith/includes disjunction and directly asserting that mixed
contains the standalone shrinking output. Preserve the existing trimmed
comparison while ensuring the assertion explicitly verifies containment.

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src/merge.js:707

  • The new gate is exercised only for solo groups and a blocked solo run; no savings-only test covers this cluster.length > 1 path (including the star/twin strategies that create several replacement rules) or verifies its identity-preserving rollback. Add a growing entangled-cluster fixture and assert the output remains unchanged with the correct applied and withheld results, otherwise regressions in these higher-risk transaction paths can go undetected.
      gated(ctx, scope, cluster.map(group => group.key), [...clusterRules], () => {
        if (cluster.length === 1) mergeSoloGroup(ctx, scope, cluster[0]);
        else mergeCluster(ctx, scope, cluster);
      });
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function measureNode(node) {
return Buffer.byteLength((node.raws.before ?? '') + node.toString(), 'utf8');

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Not correct: toString() excludes the node’s own leading whitespace—a node with raws.before: "\n\n" returns ".b {\n top: 0;\n}"—so the two terms are what it contributes to the output. Confirmed independently by cross-checking every gated merge's local cost against a full-root diff: zero mismatches, where systematic double-counting would fail.

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// …and undo any re-spacing PostCSS did when it promoted a new first child
for (const [node, before] of snap.frontBefores) {
if (node.raws.before !== before) {
node.raws.before = before;
byteCache.delete(node);
}

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That transfer is overridden in Root.removeChild only (postcss/lib/root.js:49); Container.removeChild just splices. Verified: removing an @media block’s first child leaves its sibling’s raws.before at "\n\n " unchanged, while the same operation at root rewrites "\n\n" to ""—so capturing the root’s leading children is sufficient.

j9t added 2 commits August 24, 2026 18:59
Adjusted the test assertion for cluster consolidation to remove unnecessary conditions and improve clarity. This ensures the test properly verifies the expected behavior without ambiguity.

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Signed-off-by: Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
Enhanced merge tracking by introducing insertion recording, ensuring accurate rollback and efficient byte measurements. Updated tests to validate entangled group handling and ensure the accuracy of savings-only behavior.

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Actionable comments posted: 4

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Inline comments:
In `@src/consolidate.js`:
- Around line 120-124: Update consolidateRoot to collect aggressive-mode
condition-block candidates once, alongside initiallyEmpty, and pass that stable
list to removeEmptiedConditionBlocks from the settle closure. Adjust
removeEmptiedConditionBlocks to filter detached candidates before processing,
preserving rollback reattachment behavior and avoiding repeated root.walkAtRules
scans.

In `@src/lib/transaction.js`:
- Around line 67-76: Update captureFront() to accept the merge rules, identify
the complete leading run of children those rules can remove, and record that run
plus the first surviving child; include removable condition containers handled
by settle(). Update its callers and the costSince()/rollback() flow so all
captured children’s whitespace deltas are accounted for and restored.

In `@src/merge.js`:
- Around line 542-546: The first rule inserted by each merge strategy is not
reported to the transaction. In src/merge.js lines 542-546, update the flow
around hub.before(finalRules[0]) to call recordInsertion(finalRules[0])
immediately afterward; in src/merge.js lines 264-268, call
recordInsertion(beforeResidual) immediately after target.before(beforeResidual).
No direct changes are needed elsewhere.

In `@test/dedup.test.js`:
- Around line 866-873: Add a regression test fixture in the dedup tests covering
two leading root removals; configure the declined merge so the first two root
children are removed, then assert the resulting output is exactly equal to the
original input. Exercise the rollback path associated with captureFront and
ensure the promoted third child’s raws.before formatting is restored
byte-for-byte.
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Introduced byte measurement tracking for precise merge pricing and rollback scenarios. Improved handling of empty and removable root-level rules, consolidated condition block collection, and added extensive testing for savings-only behavior and edge cases.

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Signed-off-by: Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
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