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applySourceMap should be lossless

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by tracing the applySourceMap implementation and its handling of source maps with different levels of detail. Reproduce the gulp-uglify and gulp-concat case from the linked issue, then define lossless output behavior and add a regression test covering the missing details.

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Description

feat

Using applySourceMap looses details when one of the sourcemaps has less details than the other one. This is the cause of problems when using gulp-uglify and gulp-concat together.

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