TypedDevs/bashunit 0.42.0

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🐛 Bug Fixes

• A failing set_up_before_script/set_up now fails every test in the file with the hook's error, keeps the totals consistent, and lets the suite continue — a strict test file can no longer abort the whole run mid-suite (#836)
• Run-mode flags (--parallel, --simple, --strict, --retry, --seed, report paths, …) no longer leak through the environment into nested bashunit runs, so a script under test that calls bashunit gets default behavior; BASHUNIT_*=… configuration is unchanged (#834, #837)
• install.sh fails fast: a failed download, clone, build or copy aborts with a clear error instead of reporting success, and a failed beta clone no longer runs build.sh in the caller's directory (#840)
• ./build.sh --verify exits non-zero when the built binary fails the suite, and the verification run no longer crashes mid-suite from tests resolving repo paths against the build folder (#834)
• ./bashunit bench works again from a repository checkout (the dev entrypoint never sourced src/benchmark.sh) (#834)
• Snapshot placeholders (::ignore::) now work on systems without perl; multi-line placeholders still need perl (#823)
• Runs no longer leak a scratch directory under $TMPDIR/bashunit/run/ — it is removed on exit, including --version/--help, subcommands and Ctrl-C (#811)
• bashunit::helper::get_function_line_number no longer disables extdebug for its caller (#808)
• --test-timeout no longer intermittently reports a fast test as timed out; the watchdog signals by pid and skips a test that already completed

✨ Improvements

• watch subcommand no longer fails when neither inotifywait nor fswatch is installed — it falls back to pure-shell polling (interval via BASHUNIT_WATCH_INTERVAL, default 2s) instead of exiting (#779)
• Shell tab-completion scripts for bash and zsh under completions/ (subcommands, test flags with value hints, assertion names), kept in sync by an anti-drift CI test (#778)
• --rerun-failed (BASHUNIT_RERUN_FAILED) replays only the previously failing tests, recorded in .bashunit/last-failed; composes with --filter/--tag/--parallel and falls back to the full suite when empty (add .bashunit/ to .gitignore) (#776)
• Optional nightly coverage.yml workflow publishes a shields.io coverage badge from --coverage over the unit suite; schedule/manual only, never gates merges (#754)
• --jobs auto / -j auto caps parallel concurrency at the CPU core count (portable across Linux/macOS/BSD); the default stays unlimited (#766)

🛠️ Changes

• build.sh hardened: runs under set -euo pipefail, derives the embed list from the entrypoint's source order (single source of truth), guards against duplicate embeds and missing doc markers, drops eval, and gates every build behind bash -n (#834)
• bashunit doc no longer forks an echo | sed pipe per line of the assertion docs: a single awk pass prints the same bytes in ~50ms instead of ~5s (#832)
• Multi-file runs are no longer quadratic in file count; bashunit's own 63-file unit suite: ~64s -> ~22s sequential, ~26s -> ~7s parallel (#829)
• Major performance work with no behaviour change (near fork-free hot paths, cached snapshot/--tag scans, single-pass failure rendering). On bash 3.2: 100x10 assert_equals ~1.50s -> ~0.76s, 500 snapshot assertions ~7.5s -> ~3.0s, 100 tagged tests ~2.92s -> ~0.68s, acceptance suite ~61s -> ~17s (#761-#764, #772-#775, #798, #801-#807, #809, #810, #813, #817)
• Per-test timing now defaults to auto (BASHUNIT_SHOW_EXECUTION_TIME=true|false|auto): shown only when the clock is fork-free, avoiding perl forks on bash 3.2; --profile/--verbose/reports still measure (see adrs/adr-008-auto-skip-per-test-timing.md) (#765)
• assert_equals/assert_same failures with multiline values now render a git word-diff below the header (requires git, opt out with BASHUNIT_NO_DIFF=true, respects --no-color); machine reports keep the raw values (#777)

👥 Contributors

• @Chemaclass

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