Always had the problem that if I wanted to just log an error, rather than bubble it all the way up to main(), that you wouldn’t get a stacktrace. You could iterate the source chain and plug the stacktrace together yourself, but it’s rather complex code.
Now I realized, you can do this to get a stacktrace:
let error = todo!("Get an error somehow...");
let error = anyhow::anyhow!(error); //converts to an `anyhow::Error`
eprintln!("Error with stacktrace: {error:?}");
For converting to an anyhow::Error, it often also makes sense to use anyhow::Context like so:
use anyhow::Context;
let error = error.context("Deleting file failed.");


source traversal != backtrace
Ah yeah, I was thinking of the “Caused by” shenanigans, which it prints in addition to the stacktrace.