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compressDir leaves out empty directories, for tar, tgz and zip:

mkdir -p proj/logs proj/src && echo hi > proj/src/a.txt
node -e "require('compressing').tar.compressDir('proj', 'p.tar')"
tar tf p.tar      # proj/src/a.txt   (no proj/logs/)

tar c and zip -r both keep proj/logs/. Apps archived with placeholder directories (logs/, uploads/, tmp/) come back without them after extracting.

_addDirEntry only adds the directory's children, so a directory with none leaves no entry. It now writes a directory entry when the directory is empty: a directory header for tar/tgz, addEmptyDirectory for zip.

Added a tar and a zip test that compress a folder with an empty subfolder and uncompress it; both fail without the change. npm run test:js passes apart from tgz.uncompress(sourceFile, destDir), which fails the same way without the change here.

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• New Features
  • TAR and ZIP archives now preserve empty directories when compressing folders.

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Walkthrough

Tar and ZIP streams now add entries for empty directories. Tests compress and extract directories to check that empty subdirectories are preserved.

Changes: Empty Directory Archive Entries

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Emit and test empty-directory entries lib/tar/stream.js, lib/zip/stream.js, test/tar/index.test.js, test/zip/index.test.js	The tar stream adds a directory entry when a directory has no children, using a name based on ignoreBase and the relative path. The ZIP stream adds an empty directory by name. Tests check that extracted archives preserve empty subdirectories.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Low · up to 16464

Archives now keep empty directories such as logs/ and uploads/ in both tar and zip formats. In rare cases a zip of an oddly named empty directory, or of a very large tree with thousands of empty directories, could crash the process instead of returning an error. Owners should be aware of these edge cases, but they do not block the main fix.

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The title "fix: keep empty directories in compressDir" matches the main change. The raw summary and PR objectives both show that compressDir now includes empty directories in tar/tgz archives (directory header) and zip archives (addEmptyDirectory), with tests covering an empty subfolder. The title is specific, concise, and in a conventional commit format.

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Review comments at @lib/zip/stream.js:
- Line 22: Update the handling of queued empty directories at
this._zipfile.addEmptyDirectory(name) so draining a large queue does not recurse
through synchronous calls to pumpEntries and overflow the stack. Use a writer or
upstream fix that drains directory entries iteratively, preserving their
existing order and behavior.
- Line 22: Update _addEmptyDirEntry to catch synchronous errors from
_zipfile.addEmptyDirectory and emit them as stream errors, matching the class’s
existing error-handling paths.

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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift

Avoid recursive draining of queued empty directories.

If a large file is still being compressed, traversal can queue thousands of empty directories behind it. In yazl 3.3.1, each queued directory synchronously calls pumpEntries for the next one. A sufficiently large queue overflows the call stack when the file finishes, which can terminate the process. (raw.githubusercontent.com) Use a writer or upstream fix that drains directory entries without recursive calls.

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Review comment at @lib/zip/stream.js at line 22:
Update the handling of queued empty directories at this._zipfile.addEmptyDirectory(name) so draining a large queue does not recurse through synchronous calls to pumpEntries and overflow the stack. Use a writer or upstream fix that drains directory entries iteratively, preserving their existing order and behavior.

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Catch the addEmptyDirectory error and emit it on the stream.

_addEmptyDirEntry calls yazl's addEmptyDirectory, which throws synchronously for a name whose \-converted path contains a .. component. The call runs inside the fs.readdir callback in lib/tar/stream.js, so the exception is not delivered as a stream error. Wrap the call and emit the error through the stream, matching the other error paths in this class.

Suggested fix

--- "a/lib/zip/stream.js"
+++ "b/lib/zip/stream.js"
@@ -18,9 +18,13 @@
     this._onEntryFinish();
   }
 
   _addEmptyDirEntry(name) {
-    this._zipfile.addEmptyDirectory(name);
+    try {
+      this._zipfile.addEmptyDirectory(name);
+    } catch (err) {
+      this.emit('error', err);
+    }
   }
 
   _addBufferEntry(entry, opts) {
     if (!opts.relativePath) return this.emit('error', new Error('opts.relativePath is required if entry is a buffer'));

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Suggested change

	this._zipfile.addEmptyDirectory(name);
	try {
	this._zipfile.addEmptyDirectory(name);
	} catch (err) {
	this.emit('error', err);
	}

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Review comment at @lib/zip/stream.js at line 22:
Update _addEmptyDirEntry to catch synchronous errors from _zipfile.addEmptyDirectory and emit them as stream errors, matching the class’s existing error-handling paths.

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