[GNC] Should GNUCash allow a split to reference the same account twice

[Liz]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:46:08 +0100
Henry Law <news at lawshouse.org> wrote:

> Earlier today my wife was running GNUCash to update "her" bit of the
> accounts and got into a serious tangle because she (inadvertently)
> changed a newly-imported transaction so that its two splits -- which
> should have been our current account and her credit card account --
> both referred to the credit card account.  She then reconciled one
> half and not the other, which caused a cascade of issues which took me
> several hours and a manual edit to the GNUCash file to fix.
> 
> Should GNUCash refuse to allow a transaction to have two splits into
> the same account?  My knowledge of accounting is scant, but with it I
> can't see why one would ever legitimately do that.


With the benefit of hindsight, would going back to a previous save have
been a better thing from a time perspective?

Liz