Duplicate names in different parts of the accounts tree?

Adam Funk a24061 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 21 14:01:08 EDT 2006


On 2006-09-21, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Quoting Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com>:
>
>> Is there anything wrong or inadvisable about using the same simple
>> account name in different parts of the tree, for example
>> "Expenses:House:Insurance" and "Expenses:Car:Insurance"?
>
> No.  This should be allowed.  You just can't have two accounts of the
> same name at the place in the tree.  I.e. siblings can't have the same
> account name.  However cousins can.

I.e. it's the "full path name" that has to be unique.
Thanks!




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