GnuCash log files still appear

[Carson Chittom]

Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> writes:

> On 14 February 2012 16:59, Carson Chittom <carson at wistly.net> wrote:
>> I'm using GnuCash 2.4.8 on Cygwin.  Since I keep my files under version
>> control, I've turned off the GnuCash log files[1], but *.log files
>> continue to be generated when I save (i.e., I deleted all the old ones,
>> saved again, and there's a new log file).  Am I missing an option, or
>> something?
>>
>>
>> [1] Edit>Preferences>General>Retain log files: Never
>
> I think it still generates them but will delete them each time you
> restart gnucash (or something along those lines).  The best thing is
> to set your vcs up to ignore the logfiles.  For git put a .gitignore
> file in the folder containing *.log.  svn has a similar system.

If that's the way it works, I can live with that (though I'd still
rather it just never generated the log files (or at least deleted them
on *exit* instead of on start)).

Also, perhaps the wording of the Preferences dialogue could be amended:
the observed behavior is certainly not what I expected when I selected
the "Never" radio button.