Diffing two account files

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 13, 2015, at 6:33 AM, Plutocrat <plutocrat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> AC wrote on Thursday, 13 August, 2015 11:32 AM:
>> Is it possible to generate some kind of difference output between a data
>> file and one of its backups?  I'm trying to find an entry error and it
>> would be ideal if I could make a diff.
> 
> If you're not saving to an SQL database backend, then the files are in XML format, either plain or gzipped. So yes, xml can be diffed. 

Note that GnuCash isn’t careful about keeping things in the same order from one save to the next so you’ll get a bunch of diffs just because of that. 

Regards,
John Ralls