From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 16:33:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/12] tests: when run in Bash, annotate test failures with file name/line number
Message-ID: <xmqq368d81l7.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200506134659.GA75901@Carlos-MBP>

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> writes:

>> Unfortunately, it completely breaks the feature. At that point, `$LINENO`
>> is either unset (e.g. in `dash`) or it contains the number of the line
>> _containing the `echo`. That is totally useless information at this point,
>> we want the line number of the caller.
>
> that seems like a bug in dash, which NetBSD sh doesn't have, as LINENO
> wouldn't be unset.

I thought you already gave a perfectly well working eval '...' approach.
Was it insufficient?