Files outside rootDir emit files adjacent to themselves if they are imported by an included file

[gtm-nayan]

Bug Report

The documentation for rootDir states that

Note that TypeScript will never write an output file to a directory outside of outDir, and will never skip emitting a file. For this reason, rootDir also enforces that all files which need to be emitted are underneath the rootDir path.

If any included file imports a ts file outside of rootDir, a declaration file is generated for that imported file and emitted adjacent to it. noEmitOnError needs to be either omitted or set to false, or the -b flag needs to be specified for this to occur.

🔎 Search Terms

noEmitOnError, unwanted declaration files, emits outside outDir, emits outside declarationDir

🕗 Version & Regression Information

On all versions matching ^4.2.4 and on the current nightly, nonexhaustive, haven't checked others

• This is the behavior in every version I tried, and I reviewed the FAQ for entries about tsconfig.json behaviour and commandline behaviour

⏯ Playground Link

https://github.com/gtm-nayan/ts-no-emit-wat/
Sorry, couldn't figure out multiple files in the playground or the workbench.

💻 Code

🙁 Actual behavior

Declaration files emitted outside of output directory.

🙂 Expected behavior

No files should be emitted outside of the specified output directory.

[RyanCavanaugh]

We should adjust the docs here, not the TS behavior. There are performance implications to acting as if noEmitOnError might be set that we don't want to incur for the sake of behaving "better" in the case of configuration errors.