2017-12-05 GnuCash IRC logs

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03:18:24 <gjanssens> .
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04:01:40 <chris> gjanssens: wrt rewriting history, will it be useful to show intermediate steps of the big refactoring, or better use fixup for all intermediates?
04:01:51 <chris> gjanssens: (quick qu)
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04:17:35 <gncbot> chris: Error: I can't send notes to myself.
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16:24:49 <gjanssens> chris: there are no hard rules for what the history should look like. Personally I think intermediate steps are useful. But you should strive for each individual commit to be self-contained in that each commit should be buildable and ideally not break any tests or contain deliberate failures of any kind.
16:25:44 <gjanssens> chris: this last part helps a lot in bisecting (a git technique to locate the first commit in which something particular has changed)
16:26:32 <gjanssens> chris: if you have good reason to deliberately commit a breaking change, this should be clearly indicated in the commit message
16:27:15 <gjanssens> For example I have in the past imported a number of source files from goffice and I knew that commit wouldn't build.
16:28:08 <gjanssens> But I chose to commit the imported files unaltered initially so they could be linked back more easily to the their original goffice project and history.
16:30:01 <gjanssens> I'm talking about this commit: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/d858c7d51db343a4495721266cb8484548036ab0
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16:50:33 <Robert> Hi. I have a question about how the Transaction>Copy Transaction and Transaction>Copy Split and their complements Transaction>Paste and Transaction>Paste Split work. I have tried pasting a copied transaction from one Asset:Bank accoint into the blank transaction at the bottom of the register of a different asset account and also in the register of an income account. In both cases the transaction took todays date and the current acc
16:50:34 <Robert> nt substituted in the last split line for the account in the clipboard copy.
16:51:43 <Robert> Then I tried pasting into a text document to see the clipboard contents and it failed to pase anything visible at all.
16:54:17 <Robert> What I was leading up to was trying to find the limits of these actions, as it is conceivable to attempt to paste into incompatible account types, etc.
16:57:55 <Robert> I assume that there must be some rules placing limits and determining 'normal' actions, such as always putting the current account into the last line of the pasted split, for example. Is this true?
16:59:57 <Robert> BTW, I am preforming this experiment in GnuCash Release 2.6.18 in Windows
17:02:49 <Robert> Please ignore my spelling errors.
17:13:02 <lmat> Robert: How did you copy one transaction from one register to another?
17:13:35 <lmat> Robert: When I select a transaction, then press the "Copy Transaction" button, it prompts me for a date and number. When I press OK, the transaction is posted in the same register with the new given date and number.
17:14:10 <lmat> Robert: In my understanding, nothing is being copied to a clipboard, but rather something is being duplicated.
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20:17:30 <Robert> If I use the Duplicate Transaction button, it works like you describe. I am asking about the Transaction > Copy Transaction Menu bar icons.
20:23:08 <Robert> that holds something in the clipboard such that I can navigate to another register and paste a copy of the transaction there. Since the complete transaction may not include a split in the target account, there must be some interesting rules involved in that action.
20:24:59 <Robert> I have proved that it works i simple cases, but I am afraid if I experiment too much, I might corrupt my data file
20:25:45 <Robert> I think that the user manual should provide more detail about this
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20:33:56 <jralls> lmat: I've just pushed a change that handles all manner of install path variations. It should work for running in an IDE, though you may need to set GNC_UNINSTALLED=yes and GNC_BUILDDIR=/path/to/builddir in the environment so that GnuCash can find its modules if it can't find them with binreloc.
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20:35:37 <jralls> gjanssens: The commit I just pushed also removes most of the "specialness" of the backend modules when building with CMake.
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20:35:56 <jralls> @tell gjanssens The commit I just pushed also removes most of the "specialness" of the backend modules when building with CMake.
20:35:56 <gncbot> jralls: The operation succeeded.
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21:30:42 <chris> @tell gjanssens cool thanks. I'll do the git work in another branch over next couple weeks and will PR when ready. The existing branch will continue receive experiments and refinements. Hopefully when all done the new branch commits can be individually applied to add additional features. cross fingers :)
21:30:42 <gncbot> chris: The operation succeeded.
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23:46:16 <overl0rd> Can somebody help me figure out the part of code which looks up securities prices?
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