width control for bse output?

[Will Robinson]

Hi there,

I do something like full-fledged hledger, where I have a Makefile that auto-generates reports of various kinds, and where I check those in to version control and can look at their diff after I've made journal changes to ensure that things still generally look as expected.

One thing that throws this off is that I'll occasionally add a new commodity or account that changes the width of output for the balancesheetequity ("bse") hledger command. This means the diff is no longer useful across that change, since every line is now "different."

It seems that there are width output formatting options, but they don't appear to apply to bs or bse commands(?).

Thanks as always,

Will

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[Simon Michael]

For comparing diffs, do any of these help:

- --layout wide,MAXWIDTH, --layout bare, --layout tidy...

- not using tree mode if you're using that

- not showing multiple periods if you're using that

- overriding commodity styles with -c, eg limiting precision

- limiting --depth

- -MA --summary

- excluding particular problem accounts/commodities

- generating one report per commodity with cur: ?

- generating csv/tsv/json output ?

- using the balance command instead, and eg --transpose, or a single --period and --format

- using the [a]register command

?

[Dmitry Astapov]

If your version control allows it, you can also use diff command that ignores whitespace (such as diff -b, wdiff, or patdiff)

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[Will Robinson]

Thanks to both of you; so many good ideas here and I will work through them ASAP. :-)

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