* fix: install each global package in its own isolated directory by default (#11587) `pnpm add -g foo bar` now installs `foo` and `bar` as separate isolated globals — removing one no longer wipes out the other. Packages can still be bundled into a single isolated install with a comma-separated list: `pnpm add -g foo,bar qar` keeps foo+bar together and qar separate. * chore: downgrade changeset to patch * fix: do not split commas inside local paths or URL selectors `splitCommaSeparated` now detects path-like params (`./`, `/`, `~`, `file:`, `link:`, Windows drive paths) and URLs (anything containing `://`), and skips splitting when the param as a whole resolves to an existing local path. Plain package specs like `foo,bar` are still split as before. Adds an e2e regression test using a local package whose directory contains commas. Also reword the changeset bullet so the example sentence doesn't end abruptly at the issue link. * fix: consolidate global add summary so every installed package is listed `pnpm add -g foo bar` runs each space-separated arg as its own isolated install, but the default-reporter's summary pipeline takes the first `summary` log event and unsubscribes — so only the first group's "global: + X" block was printed and later groups disappeared from the summary even though they had been installed correctly. Adds an `omitSummaryLog` install option that suppresses the per-install summary log inside `mutateModules`. `handleGlobalAdd` enables it for each group and emits a single consolidated summary log at the very end, so the reporter prints one "global:" block listing every package that was added across all groups. * chore: update tsconfig refs after adding @pnpm/core-loggers dep * fix: show per-prefix stats and progress when global add installs multiple groups When `pnpm add -g` is given more than one CLI param (and so installs several isolated groups), force the reporter to use its prefixed progress/stats output. Without that, the single-prefix stats pipeline limits emissions to one install via `take(2)`, so only the first group's "Packages: +N" line is printed and later groups' stats are silently dropped. Each group now shows its own progress and stats line labelled with the install dir, and the consolidated "global:" summary still prints once at the end. Single-package `pnpm add -g foo` output is unchanged. * chore: bump @pnpm/installing.deps-installer in changeset The new omitSummaryLog install option is consumed by global.commands, so deps-installer needs a version bump alongside it.
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Background
pnpm uses a content-addressable filesystem to store all files from all module directories on a disk. When using npm, if you have 100 projects using lodash, you will have 100 copies of lodash on disk. With pnpm, lodash will be stored in a content-addressable storage, so:
- If you depend on different versions of lodash, only the files that differ are added to the store.
If lodash has 100 files, and a new version has a change only in one of those files,
pnpm updatewill only add 1 new file to the storage. - All the files are saved in a single place on the disk. When packages are installed, their files are linked from that single place consuming no additional disk space. Linking is performed using either hard-links or reflinks (copy-on-write).
As a result, you save gigabytes of space on your disk and you have a lot faster installations!
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Benchmarks on an app with lots of dependencies: