I don't think of it as a dummy account as much as usage of parent vs child accounts. It is probably a bug that should be fixed, but yes it may be helpful to document that assigning funds to both a parent and child account will produce unexpected results with --flat.
On Thursday, August 23, 2018 at 3:18:05 AM UTC-5, Richard Gott wrote: > > Thanks for link. I had searched but missed this one. Isn't the answer to > document the use of dummy accounts, if that is the correct term? > Thanks > Richard > > On Wednesday, 22 August 2018, Martin Michlmayr <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> * Richard Gott <[email protected] <javascript:>> [2018-08-21 09:35]: >> > An ordinary balance report is fine. But a --flat balance gets confused >> > over whether to add just the first of the lines above (depth 3) or the >> > second and third (depth 4). I can't remember which of them it did (the >> > first I think) but it was, luckily, so far wrong that it couldn't be >> missed. >> > >> > I suspect people are thinking 'what an idiot'. >> >> No, several people have run into this issue, see e.g. >> https://github.com/ledger/ledger/issues/1020 >> I'm not sure what the right behaviour should be with --flat. >> >> -- >> Martin Michlmayr >> https://www.cyrius.com/ >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Ledger" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ledger-cli/jfF6NrZUa8k/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > R Gott > 1 Willow Court > Finghall > Leyburn > N Yorks > > DL8 5NL > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
