Aw: Re: Re: Re: sequential use of Gnucash on multiple computers

[Geert Janssens]

To be honest I don't know. You will have to run additional and more elaborate experiments to 
verify this.

I would not rule out unexpected data corruption purely on the basic premise that svn 
doesn't understand the gnucash data file semantics (transactions, accounts, splits, 
currencies,...). It just sees a bunch of text. You shouldn't let a program that doesn't know the 
gnucash data semantics change your data for you. That's just basic common sense and also 
why we still advise everyone to only alter their data files using the gnucash api (be it in C, 
guile or python).

How bad it would play out in practice, I can't predict. All I know is that I personally wouldn't 
risk my business data on this, because it's way beyond the tested use case of GnuCash.

Geert

On Tuesday 21 May 2013 13:30:16 Peter von Kaehne wrote:


Thanks Geert, 
  
On the risk of appearing a bit thick.., 
  
Is there a risk of the following happening? 
  
File 1 
  
Transaction A 
  .. 
Transaction New1 
  Split New1a 
  Split New1b 
  
Transaction B 
  .. 
---------------------------- 
  
File 2 
  
Transaction A 
  .. 
Transaction New2 
  Split New2a 
  Split New2b 
Transaction B 
  .. 
--------------------------------- 
  
Merged File 
  
  
Transaction A 
  .. 
Transaction New1 
  Split New2a 
  Split New1a 
Transaction New2 
  Split New1b 
  Split New2b 
Transaction B 
  .. 
  
-------------------------- 
  
This would obviously be a corrupting disaster. 
  
A simple merge conflict would be annoying. But corruption would be a much bigger problem 
  
Peter