@nujarum this seems like a great feature request.

I guess this feature request is coming from esbuild's and terser's behavior. With those two you could just use /* istanbul ignore -- @preserve */.

-/* istanbul ignore if */
+/* istanbul ignore if -- @preserve */
if (condition) {

(Also cc @kindoflew for the linked PR)

@AriPerkkio oh cool, thanks!

I had previously tested with both @license and @preserve and it didn't seem to be working, but I just tried again and it totally does.

it was probably just something weird with how my project was set up (we had just updated to a monorepo structure and there were a handful of hiccups with some configs).